Use Cases
See How Organizations Use DisasterAWARE to Protect People, Operations, and Assets
DisasterAWARE helps organizations monitor hazards, assess impacts, prioritize actions, and improve resilience across business continuity, employee safety, supply chain operations, insurance workflows, critical infrastructure protection, climate risk planning, and emergency management. Explore how organizations transform real-time intelligence into operational decisions.
Available Intelligence
What Intelligence Powers These Use Cases
Real-Time Hazard & Event Intelligence
Monitor floods, wildfires, earthquakes, severe weather, tropical cyclones, droughts, landslides, volcanoes, tsunamis, civil unrest, strikes, protests, terrorism, and infrastructure disruptions.
Weather, Climate & Forecast Intelligence
Visualize weather observations, forecast conditions, wildfire weather indices, drought indicators, precipitation forecasts, wind forecasts, and environmental conditions.
Regional Risk Evaluations
Assess a region's vulnerability, resilience, preparedness, and ability to respond to disasters and disruptions.
Infrastructure & Base Map Intelligence
Access information on transportation networks, emergency services, hospitals, ports, airports, utilities, hydrography, and critical infrastructure.
Demographic & Socio-Economic Intelligence
Understand population characteristics, vulnerabilities, and communities that may be disproportionately affected by events.
Satellite & Remote Sensing Intelligence
Leverage high-resolution satellite imagery and environmental monitoring products to assess conditions and impacts.
Historical Event Intelligence
Analyze decades of disasters, hazards, and catastrophes to understand trends and historical impacts.
Curated Global News Intelligence
AI-curated reporting from more than 80,000 global media publishers helps provide local context, situational awareness, and insight into unfolding events.
Live Transportation Cameras
Access more than 50,000 Department of Transportation cameras across North America and Europe, including real-time images and streaming video.
Customer Use Cases
Where DisasterAWARE Delivers Impact
Business Continuity & Resilience
Challenge
Organizations need to understand how hazards, severe weather, infrastructure disruptions, and emerging risks may affect facilities, operations, suppliers, employees, and customers. Without a common operating picture, organizations often react after disruptions have already impacted business operations.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Monitor real-time hazards, weather forecasts, infrastructure disruptions, and operational risks through a single platform. Visualize potential impacts to facilities, suppliers, transportation routes, employees, and critical operations while receiving alerts and actionable intelligence.
Business Value
- •Improve organizational resilience
- •Reduce operational downtime
- •Accelerate response times
- •Improve preparedness planning
- •Support business continuity programs
Example Questions
- •Which facilities face elevated risk today?
- •What disruptions could impact operations this week?
- •Which events require immediate attention?
- •What business continuity plans should be activated?
Employee Safety & Duty of Care
Challenge
Organizations need visibility into events that may affect employees, travelers, contractors, and field personnel. Tracking global hazards, severe weather, civil unrest, and travel risks across multiple regions can be difficult and resource-intensive.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Monitor employee locations alongside hazards, weather, travel risks, evacuation orders, civil unrest, and infrastructure disruptions. Receive alerts when personnel may be affected and support safety, communication, and response efforts.
Business Value
- •Improve employee safety
- •Strengthen duty-of-care programs
- •Reduce traveler risk
- •Improve response coordination
- •Enhance situational awareness
Example Questions
- •Which employees are near active hazards?
- •Which travelers may require itinerary changes?
- •What personnel may be affected by severe weather?
- •What events require immediate communication?
Supply Chain Monitoring & Resilience
Challenge
Organizations often lack visibility into how hazards, severe weather, geopolitical events, and infrastructure disruptions may affect suppliers, manufacturing sites, logistics hubs, and transportation routes.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Monitor suppliers and logistics networks globally while visualizing real-time hazards, weather forecasts, infrastructure impacts, transportation disruptions, and regional risk indicators. Receive alerts when events may affect critical suppliers, facilities, ports, airports, or transportation corridors.
Business Value
- •Improve supply chain resilience
- •Reduce disruption-related costs
- •Improve supplier visibility
- •Support proactive contingency planning
Example Questions
- •Which suppliers are currently at risk?
- •Which facilities face disruption this week?
- •What alternative suppliers should be considered?
Insurance & Risk Management
Challenge
Insurers, brokers, and risk managers need visibility into catastrophe activity and portfolio exposure across thousands or millions of locations. Monitoring events manually can delay response and claims preparation efforts.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Monitor active hazards, severe weather, catastrophes, and emerging risks while assessing potential impacts to insured locations, portfolios, and critical assets. Leverage historical intelligence, exposure analysis, and geospatial intelligence to support catastrophe response and risk management activities.
Business Value
- •Improve catastrophe preparedness
- •Accelerate claims readiness
- •Validate claims and payouts, reduce fraud
- •Enhance portfolio visibility
- •Improve exposure management
- •Support risk-informed decision-making
Example Questions
- •Which insured locations are currently exposed?
- •What catastrophe events require attention?
- •Which regions face elevated risk?
- •What policies may be impacted?
- •Which claims may be fraud or should be rejected?
Insurance Claims Validation
Challenge
Following a disaster, insurers often receive thousands of claims in a short period of time. Claims teams must quickly determine whether a covered peril occurred, assess event severity, validate exposure, and prioritize investigations. Manual verification can delay claim processing and increase operational costs.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
DisasterAWARE combines real-time event intelligence, historical hazard intelligence, event footprints, weather observations, satellite-derived insights, and geospatial analytics to help insurers rapidly validate claims against actual hazard activity. Claims teams can determine whether an insured location was exposed to a flood, wildfire, tornado, hailstorm, tropical cyclone, earthquake, severe weather event, or other covered peril.
Business Value
- •Accelerate claim validation
- •Improve fraud detection
- •Reduce manual investigation efforts
- •Improve consistency across claims teams
- •Support catastrophe response operations
- •Improve customer experience through faster claim resolution
Example Questions
- •Did a flood occur at the insured location? If so, what was the flood depth?
- •Was the property inside the wildfire perimeter?
- •Did hail impact the insured asset? What was the size of the hail?
- •What was the specific earthquake magnitude at the insured location?
- •What wind speeds were recorded at the location?
- •Was the claim filed during a verified event?
- •What hazard intelligence supports claim review?
- •What was the event timeline and severity?
Security & Operational Risk Monitoring
Challenge
Organizations increasingly face risks from civil unrest, protests, strikes, terrorism, infrastructure disruptions, and emerging geopolitical events. These events can affect personnel, facilities, operations, and supply chains with little warning.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Monitor security-related incidents, operational disruptions, and emerging events alongside hazards and severe weather through a single operational platform. Receive alerts and contextual intelligence that help organizations understand potential impacts.
Business Value
- •Improve operational awareness
- •Reduce security-related disruptions
- •Improve incident response
- •Enhance executive visibility
- •Support operational risk programs
Example Questions
- •What operational disruptions require attention today?
- •Which facilities may be affected by protests?
- •What security risks are emerging?
- •Which regions require increased monitoring?
Critical Infrastructure Monitoring
Challenge
Utilities, telecommunications providers, transportation operators, healthcare systems, and infrastructure owners need to understand how hazards and disruptions may affect critical assets.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Monitor infrastructure locations alongside hazards, weather forecasts, wildfire conditions, flood threats, severe weather, and other emerging risks. Visualize impacts to critical infrastructure and operational dependencies.
Business Value
- •Improve infrastructure resilience
- •Reduce outage impacts
- •Improve preparedness planning
- •Enhance operational awareness
- •Support restoration efforts
Example Questions
- •Which assets are located in high-risk areas?
- •What infrastructure may be impacted by approaching hazards?
- •Which facilities require preventative actions?
- •Where should resources be pre-positioned?
Government & Emergency Management
Challenge
Emergency managers must monitor evolving situations, assess impacts, coordinate resources, and support preparedness, response, and recovery activities.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Access real-time hazard intelligence, weather forecasts, population exposure, infrastructure information, transportation data, and situational awareness tools from a single operational platform.
Business Value
- •Improve situational awareness
- •Enhance coordination
- •Accelerate response efforts
- •Support preparedness activities
- •Improve decision-making
Example Questions
- •What communities face the greatest risk?
- •Which hazards require immediate attention?
- •Where should resources be deployed?
- •What infrastructure may be affected?
Humanitarian Operations
Challenge
Humanitarian organizations must rapidly identify vulnerable populations, assess needs, and prioritize resources during disasters and crises.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Combine hazard intelligence, population exposure, infrastructure data, regional risk indicators, weather forecasts, and operational intelligence to support preparedness and response efforts.
Business Value
- •Improve resource prioritization
- •Accelerate response efforts
- •Improve situational awareness
- •Support vulnerable populations
- •Enhance operational effectiveness
Example Questions
- •Which communities are most vulnerable?
- •Where should aid be prioritized?
- •What populations may be affected?
- •Which infrastructure disruptions could affect response efforts?
Executive Situational Awareness
Challenge
Executives and leadership teams need a consolidated view of risks affecting operations, facilities, employees, customers, and supply chains.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Provide a common operating picture that combines hazards, weather, operational disruptions, exposure intelligence, forecasts, and risk indicators into a single platform. Generate executive briefings and support risk-informed decision-making.
Business Value
- •Improve executive visibility
- •Accelerate decision-making
- •Improve organizational preparedness
- •Support strategic planning
- •Enhance risk governance
Example Questions
- •What risks require executive attention today?
- •What events may affect operations this week?
- •Which regions face elevated risk?
- •What actions should be considered?
Climate Risk & Resilience Planning
Challenge
Organizations increasingly need to understand how climate-related hazards and long-term environmental trends may affect facilities, operations, supply chains, infrastructure investments, and communities. Many organizations struggle to combine historical events, current risk conditions, climate indicators, and resilience data into a single view that supports planning and investment decisions.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
DisasterAWARE combines climate risk indicators, historical disaster intelligence, vulnerability assessments, resilience metrics, geospatial intelligence layers, and real-time hazard monitoring to help organizations understand both current and future risk conditions. Visualize flood risk, wildfire risk, drought conditions, extreme temperature trends, sea-level rise indicators, population vulnerability, and resilience factors alongside facilities, assets, suppliers, and critical infrastructure.
Business Value
- •Improve climate resilience planning
- •Support infrastructure investment decisions
- •Identify climate-related operational risks
- •Enhance business continuity strategies
- •Support ESG and sustainability initiatives
- •Strengthen long-term risk management
Example Questions
- •Which facilities face increasing climate-related risk?
- •Which regions are most vulnerable to extreme weather events?
- •How could future flood or wildfire conditions affect operations?
- •Where should future investments be prioritized?
- •Which communities may require additional resilience planning?
- •How do climate risks vary across our global footprint?
Retail & Demand Forecasting
Challenge
Retailers and consumer goods companies need to understand how weather, disasters, and disruptions may affect demand patterns, store operations, inventory requirements, and logistics.
How DisasterAWARE Helps
Combine real-time hazards, weather forecasts, historical events, and regional risk indicators with internal business data to identify potential impacts to demand, inventory, staffing, and operations.
Business Value
- •Improve inventory planning
- •Reduce stockouts
- •Improve operational readiness
- •Support demand forecasting
Example Questions
- •Which stores may experience increased demand?
- •What weather events may affect purchasing behavior?
- •Where should inventory be repositioned?
- •What disruptions may affect store operations?
- •Which products may experience increased demand due to weather conditions?
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