ImageCat, an international risk management innovation company, has announced a new partnership with Green Shield Risk Solutions, a specialist in wildfire risk analytics, to integrate Green Shield’s proprietary Property Guardian data into ImageCat’s Inhance® and FACFinder™ platforms. This collaboration aims to provide (re)insurers, financial institutions, and real estate stakeholders with advanced insights into wildfire exposure by combining ImageCat’s geospatial analytics with Green Shield’s on-the-ground, parcel-level intelligence.The integration introduces a new dimension to ImageCat’s hazard data offerings, particularly as wildfire risk continues to escalate across the U.S. and other regions, influencing underwriting decisions. Green Shield’s Property Guardian product delivers detailed parcel-level wildfire risk and mitigation data, encompassing defensible space assessments, vegetation analysis, and structural condition scoring. These insights are designed to evaluate property-level vulnerability and identify actionable mitigation strategies.
Shubharoop Ghosh, Vice President of Data Services at ImageCat, stated that the company’s mission is to make robust risk data easily accessible to decision-makers, noting that Green Shield’s Property Guardian insights enhance their existing hazard data, which is crucial given the current wildfire risk landscape. Brian Bastian, Head of Product at Green Shield Risk Solutions, added that embedding Property Guardian data into ImageCat’s platforms enables risk managers to transition from general hazard awareness to specific, actionable intelligence. He emphasized that this partnership facilitates better-informed underwriting, investment, and mitigation decisions through granular and credible data.
The enhanced platforms will support a diverse range of users, including insurance underwriters, risk managers, banks, and real estate portfolio owners, who rely on ImageCat’s services for real-time exposure analytics and high-resolution risk data.
ImageCat is an international risk management innovation company that supports the global risk and catastrophe management needs of the insurance industry, governments, and NGOs, recognized for its products, services, and R&D in disaster management technologies. Green Shield Risk Solutions specializes in catastrophe mitigation, providing property-level insights and mitigation strategies for insurers, reinsurers, and property owners to manage and reduce wildfire exposure. Its Property Guardian suite utilizes wildfire analytics to deliver real-time, science-backed analyses at structure, parcel, community, and regional levels.
