Insurtechs ‘ Approach to Wildfire Insurance: Faura

Valkyrie Holmes, CEO of Faura, believes that a deep understanding of the structural qualities of buildings is crucial to insuring properties in high-risk areas. Her company specializes in helping insurance companies understand property survivability.

Faura goes beyond traditional climate modeling and taps into independent structure data to pinpoint the likelihood that a property will survive disasters. The company accounts for a property’s materials and resilience characteristics (such as vents designed to keep embers out of a building) and weighs that data against how those qualities have fared in past disasters.

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