ICEYE has introduced an expanded multi-peril change detection capability, integrating earthquake and fire-following assessments. Initially available for California, this new offering combines earthquake-triggered change detection with high-resolution fire damage assessments, providing insurers and reinsurers with enhanced insights into structural impacts. This integration supports quicker claims processing, improved loss validation, and more accurate event impact sizing in the aftermath of complex, multi-hazard events.

The foundation of this capability lies in ICEYE’s continuous Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) pre-imaging over California, enabling precise post-event comparisons. Upon detecting a major earthquake, ICEYE activates its Rapid Impact Change Detection capability to map the full event perimeter within hours. Subsequently, targeted fire damage assessments are conducted using advanced machine learning models trained specifically on destruction patterns.

These assessments are guided by broad-scale change detection results and ancillary datasets to pinpoint the highest-priority focus areas, assisting insurers in validating where buildings were destroyed due to the earthquake and potential fires that followed. ICEYE has developed this new capability, building on the same technology used in its Hurricane and Wildfire solutions.

Outputs are delivered via a secure API, enabling streamlined access to geospatial insights and hazard assessments. In the future, these capabilities will also be available through ICEYE’s Solutions Suite application, allowing combined building-level impact layers for multi-peril analysis in an interactive, visual environment. By combining multi-source data, advanced SAR imaging, and targeted analysis, ICEYE’s Earthquake with Fire Following capability empowers the insurance industry to make faster, more confident decisions, improving both immediate disaster response and long-term portfolio resilience.

Rupert Bidwell, Vice President of Insurance Solutions at ICEYE, emphasized, “This new capability is designed to give insurers critical insight at speed and scale as the event evolves, at a time when every hour counts for their customers and wider society.”