From earthquakes to pandemics, disaster events can have a huge influence on your business. Whether an unexpected storm causes shipping delays, or if a health warning causes local shutdowns, you need a plan ready to go. Get insights at scale with PredictHQ's Disaster data.
Demand patterns can be volatile even on the best of days. But when you have to account for unscheduled events, disasters can have a huge impact and you need to respond swiftly.
There are often more disasters that happen every month than you might realize. These are a sample of the highest impact disasters that happened in the last three months. Understand how these types of events impacted your business historically so that you can better forecast for disasters in the future.
Once our machine learning models sort events into the Disasters category, highly specialized NLP models kick in, enabling further refining of your search. For example, your business may be heavily affected by severe storms disrupting supply chains. Being able to filter down to specific labels, you can focus on the most relevant emerging disasters.
Knowing about incoming disasters is only half the battle. Even with insight into an imminent flood or mudslide, you might not know exactly what the magnitude and potential impact of that event will be. PredictHQ’s event data includes rankings to give your models an instant understanding of how impactful each disaster is expected to be. Using our seven years of historical disaster events rankings enables you to identify how similar events will impact your business in the future.
Not all event data can be used to accurately forecast. With events like Disasters, conflicting accounts or inaccurate data will be detrimental to your forecasting efforts. PredictHQ’s data is not only enriched with intelligence such as rankings, but also is subject to our Quality Standards for Processing Demand Causal Factors (QSPD for short). Our data is the gold standard and designed for forecasting so you can rely on PredictHQ as a single source of truth for your demand intelligence needs.
Tracking and verifying event data is always complex, especially during the COVID and recovery era. To track the impact of COVID-related local shutdowns, we’ve added Health Warnings as a category. Now you can access insights about which localities are under lockdown at scale.
Data teams rely on high quality disaster data to understand market conditions across all industries. Demand intelligence is designed to seamlessly plug into current forecasting models and improve the output.
Unscheduled events can both decrease and increase the number of patrons going out for food, drinks, and shopping.
Disasters can lead to travel restrictions that can impact flight demand.
Many events disrupt transport intentions and traffic patterns.
Disasters are included in our unscheduled events. We have 18 other categories that are both unscheduled and scheduled events that you can explore to see what else might impact your demand.
Track all relevant and impactful health warnings with our global health warning coverage.
Dates differ slightly per state and city, as well as globally. All are ranked as major impact.
Key dates in tertiary education calendars such as graduation, homecoming and exams. (US only)
Heavy rain, strong winds, tornado season — know and respond to severe weather.
Live sports broadcasts generate huge demand surges for food, retail and delivery services.
Knowing the impact of demand causal factors like events will transform your business. The American Society of Hematology has a $45M estimated economic impact — and that's only one event in one city.