catastrophe losses

Total insured losses from catastrophe events in the first half of 2025 could reach as high as $90 billion, which would make it the second-highest first half on record, according to an estimate from analysts at Jefferies.

Following a very active start to the year, the second quarter of 2025 appears to have been significantly quieter in terms of large natural catastrophe losses for the global re/insurance industry, according to a new report from J.P. Morgan.

According to an analysis from reinsurer Swiss Re, a repeat of 2005’s hurricane Katrina hitting in an identical manner using today’s exposure values and protective measures, could drive an insured loss close to $100 billion.

US insurer Allstate has announced an estimated pre-tax catastrophe loss burden for the month of May 2025 of $777 million, which when added to the cat losses from April takes the total for its 2025 annual risk period for its aggregate catastrophe bonds to $1.37 billion.

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has issued its fourth and final industry loss estimate for the floods that impacted southern Germany between May 31 and June 6, 2024, putting the insured market loss at €1.564 billion.

The final week of May brought a wave of damaging severe convective storms and flooding across the southern United States, with insured losses likely to reach into the billions, according to global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon.

Severe convective storm (SCS) activity across the United States has now cost the insurance and reinsurance industry more than $20 billion in 2025, broker Gallagher Re estimates, with its Chief Science Officer Steve Bowen highlighting that the May 14th to 20th outbreak could drive insured losses of up to $7 billion.

Due to the extensive tornado, hail, and wind damage across the central and eastern United States, global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has indicated that a recent outbreak could be among the most expensive severe weather events in U.S. history on an inflation-adjusted basis.

The decommissioning of NOAA’s billion-dollar weather disaster database could force a rethink of parametric triggers used in catastrophe bonds and hamper insurers’ ability to model and price secondary perils, according to global ratings agency AM Best.

A severe weather outbreak across the US midwest over the last few days is likely to have created more than $5 billion in losses for the insurance and reinsurance industry, perhaps making this outbreak the largest severe weather loss event of 2025 so far, according to BMS Group Senior Meteorologist Andrew Siffert.