Climate change appears to be increasing the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather
events, negatively affecting communities as well as posing long-term sustainability
challenges to insurance (risk transfer) mechanisms. New Zealand's public natural hazard
insurer, the Earthquake Commission (EQC), covers homeowners for damage to land (and in
some cases to dwellings and contents) caused by landslip, storm or flood. We
comprehensively explore the EQC claims data to investigate these weather-related claims …

Our work shows that Northland and the Bay of Plenty are the regions with the highest
proportions of people and properties affected by weather events in the North Island of New
Zealand.[...] The web link for the particular events from this historic weather database, where
we obtain the name and characteristics of most of the events used in our analysis, is
provided in the Appendix.[...] Three out of the five events happened in the north of the North
Island, while the others occurred in the north of the South Island (Nelson/Abel Tasman …