ISO Studies

ISO publishes studies on important issues for government agencies, the insurance industry, and society as a whole. The studies include incisive analysis by ISO experts. Regulators, legislators, and the public will find these reports valuable.

• Effective Fire Protection: A National Concern — explores how community growth can affect fire protection and how fire chiefs use PPC™ to help plan for, budget, and justify improvements
• ISO’s PPC™ Program: Helping to Build Effective Fire-Protection Services — explains how the PPC program helps communities improve their fire protection and how ISO’s community outreach efforts help communities realize the economic benefits of improved public protection
• Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS) — manual containing criteria ISO uses in reviewing the firefighting capabilities of individual communities
• Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule (BCEGS™) — manual containing criteria ISO uses to assess the building codes in effect in a community and how the community enforces its codes
• FireLine™: Pinpointing Losses in the Wildfires of 2003 — describes how FireLine information correlated with burn areas in the California wildfires in San Diego and San Bernardino Counties
• Catastrophe Risk Modeling Applications to Homeland Security and Defense — describes catastrophe risk modeling technology and underlying data, provides illustrations of applications, and highlights key issues for communities and government agencies
• Analyzing and Preparing for Multiple Event Seasons — explains how you can account for the probability of multiple events in a single year and techniques for government agencies to improve catastrophe risk-management strategies
• The Coastline at Risk: Estimated Insured Value of Coastal Properties in Hurricane Katrina’s Wake — explores how the increase in the number and value of exposed properties in coastal states contributes to increasing hurricane losses