Continental-US hail hazard and loss-exposure geodata

Continental-US hail hazard and loss-exposure geodata: hail return-interval (RI) rasters in years for naturally occurring hail at diameters from 25 mm to 95 mm, plus maximum estimated hailstone diameter (dmax) surfaces at 40-, 100-year and other intervals, rendered as ArcGIS contour layers. Built from a rainfall/radar-informed meteorological model over calibrated NEXRAD polar-data and NOAA Storm Prediction Center hail records. Adds an engineered financial-loss layer: probable maximum loss (PML), average annual loss (AAL) and extreme-loss estimates resolved by lat-long site coordinate AND hardware configuration (module tilt angle, wind direction, PV glass type/thickness).

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Industry: Testing Laboratories
Instruments: equitiesderivatives
Categories: GeospatialAlternative

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Type: not stated
Format: Geospatial raster/vector (ArcGIS contour maps and tiles of return-interval and dmax surfaces) plus Tabular site-level loss-exposure lookups (PML/AAL by coordinate and hardware spec) — Multimodal
Volume: Est. low tens of GB of derived rasters: continental-US coverage x ~8 diameter bands (25-95 mm) x multiple return intervals (40y, 100y, others) x dmax surfaces, plus the PML/AAL site-by-hardware lookup grid. Compact in bytes; value is in the calibration, not storage volume.
Users: Est. hundreds to low thousands of licensed professional seats (inferred from an organization-level ArcGIS subscription model sold to insurance, agriculture and solar-project firms inside a 2,000-employee group; no user count published)
History: 6 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active / mature — the atlas is a live, currently marketed product inside an established testing-and-certification group (page carries live 2026 webinar schedule and current navigation). Growth is steady commercial, not hypergrowth; the solar-hail segment it serves is itself expanding.
Launched: Est. 2019-2022 for the hail-risk service (inferred from VDE Americas' solar/PV hail advisory positioning and the maturity of calibrated NEXRAD dual-polarisation hail retrieval in that window; VDE itself is a long-established institution, so the parent's age overstates the product's)
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