2026 Atlantic hurricane season

Moody’s RMS Event Response has now provided an initial estimate of insurance industry losses from recent hurricane Isaias, placing them in a range between $2.5 billion and $4.5 billion.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has provided an initial estimate for the private insurance market loss from wind and storm surge associated with recent hurricane Isaias, saying it expects the total to be $3 billion.

Verisk, a catastrophe risk modelling and data analytics specialist, has now issued an initial industry insured loss estimate for recent hurricane Isaias, saying that onshore property losses from the storm could reach $2 billion.

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has placed an initial insurance industry loss estimate for recent hurricane Isaias in the range of $2 billion to $4 billion, noting there is the potential for the storm’s losses to add to aggregate structures.

Hurricane Isaias is now forecast to intensify further to become a major Category 3 storm as it approaches the Gulf Coast today, outpacing meteorologists initial expectations. But, prior to landfall late today or early on Saturday, Isaias is expected to encounter wind shear and begin to weaken, which should lessen the impacts and keeps estimates […]

Isaiais is now the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season having intensified overnight and the forecast continues to suggest a Category 2 landfall on the Gulf Coast is a possible outcome, at which level of intensity reinsurance broker Gallagher Re said it would typically result in insured losses in the low to mid-single digit […]

The US National Hurricane Center’s latest forecast, for what remains tropical depression nine at this time, is for the developing system to become tropical storm Isaias later today, after which it is forecast to intensify into a hurricane and head towards a landfall on the Gulf Coast.

Mangrove Property Insurance Company, the Florida based specialist insurer, has secured a record-setting catastrophe reinsurance programme for the 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which is set to provide protection against both the frequency and severity of catastrophe events, with coverage reportedly extending to a 1-in-175 year storm.

Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) has now lowered its forecast for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season at an update today, citing “conditions in the sub-tropical Atlantic looking less favourable than as appeared to be a month ago.”

The Colorado State University (CSU) tropical meteorology team has stuck with its forecast of well-below normal activity levels for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, while its landfall probability metrics have declined somewhat as the season progresses.