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CoreLogic Natural Hazard Report Reveals Serious Delinquency Rates Tripled in Recent Disaster-affected Regions

Annual natural hazard summary examines how previous disasters are impacting today’s micro economies; Looks at the catastrophe and weather events of 2019.

IRVINE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — January 29, 2020 — CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released its annual Natural Hazard Report including a look back at communities affected by wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes in 2019.

Based on CoreLogic research, as a result of natural hazards, 2019 could bring an increase in mortgage delinquency rates, taking 12 or more months before normalizing to pre-disaster rates. After 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, serious delinquency rates on home mortgages tripled in the Houston, Texas, and Cape Coral, Florida, metropolitan areas and quadrupled in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Serious delinquency rates spiked by more than 50% in the Santa Rosa and Chico, California metro areas after the 2017 Tubbs Fire and 2018 Camp Fire.

“While 2019 was not the most catastrophic year to-date, it demonstrated a continuing trend of higher losses,” said Tom Larsen, Principal, Industry Solutions. “Affected communities experience an ensuing ripple effect from natural disasters, which is why continuously improving the data and analytics surrounding these catastrophes is so important in making our society more resilient. Understanding the past is critical to contending with the risk of the future.”

2019 marks the seventh year in the last decade in which 10 or more weather and climate disasters exceeding $1 billion have occurred. The decade brought some federal and state policy changes as the United States grapples with more frequent and more severe natural disasters:

Catastrophic and extreme weather events in 2019 examined in the report include:

Tornadoes

Hurricanes

Wildfire

Flooding

To download the full 2019 Natural Hazard Report, which includes maps, charts and images, visit this link.

To take a deeper look at CoreLogic coverage of 2019 natural disasters, visit the company’s natural hazard risk information center, Hazard HQ, at www.hazardhq.com.

About CoreLogic

CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), the leading provider of property insights and solutions, promotes a healthy housing market and thriving communities. Through its enhanced property data solutions, services and technologies, CoreLogic enables real estate professionals, financial institutions, insurance carriers, government agencies and other housing market participants to help millions of people find, acquire and protect their homes. For more information, please visit www.corelogic.com.



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