{"id":283736,"date":"2026-01-15T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=283736"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:15:06","slug":"natural-disasters-put-pressure-on-insurers-insurance-losses-cross-108-billion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/natural-disasters-put-pressure-on-insurers-insurance-losses-cross-108-billion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural disasters put pressure on insurers, insurance losses cross $108 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Global insurance losses from natural disasters are set to exceed $100 billion again in 2025. Insurers will have to pay about $108 billion in damages out of the $224 billion total. <\/p>\n<p>Weather-related disasters account for 97 per cent of insurance losses, according to Munich Rico data. Most of these insurance claims are due to forest fires, floods and severe storms. <\/p>\n<p>By 2025, total damage from wildfires, floods, and high waves was about $166 billion. About $98 billion of this was insured. This was significantly higher than the long-term average. <\/p>\n<p>The most costly event for insurance companies was the bushfires in the Los Angeles area in January. It insured about $40 billion of the total damages of about $53 billion. This made it the most expensive fire incident. <\/p>\n<p>In the United States, insured damage from severe hurricanes was also high. Multiple storms in March caused nearly $7 billion worth of damage to insured assets. In the Caribbean, Hurricane Melissa caused approximately $3 billion worth of insured damage. About $9.8 billion of that was in Jamaica and Cuba. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, insured losses in 2025 were equivalent to a 10-year inflation-adjusted average of about $107 billion. However, this is not the first time in decades that any major hurricanes have hit the US mainland. <\/p>\n<p>According to Munich Ric, the figures reflect the increasing impact of secondary risks such as wildfires and severe storms on insurance companies&#8217; damage experience. Most of the damage is in the uninsured, especially in the North American region. \u2013Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Global insurance losses from natural disasters are set to exceed $100 billion again in 2025. Insurers will have to pay about $108 billion in damages out of the $224 billion total. Weather-related disasters account for 97 per cent of insurance losses, according to Munich Rico data. Most of these insurance claims are due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":250220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283737,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283736\/revisions\/283737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/250220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}