Perils raises European windstorm losses estimate

22 August 2022

Windstorms that hit the UK and continental Europe in February are now estimated to have caused total losses of €3.74 billion ($5.44 billion), Zurich-based catastrophe data company Perils says.

The figure compares with a €3.61 billion ($5.27 billion) estimate released three months after the event and a six-week estimate of €3.29 billion ($4.80 billion).

The windstorm series consisted of three storms named Ylenia, Zeynep and Antonia by the Free University of Berlin, and Dudley, Eunice and Franklin by the UK Met Office.

Perils says close to 1.9 million individual claims were filed and the estimated impact represents the largest European windstorm loss since Kyrill in January 2007.

The majority of the losses were in Germany, followed by the Benelux states, the UK and France. Minor losses occurred in Austria, Switzerland and Denmark. Poland and the Czech Republic were also affected but are not covered in the Perils survey.

An updated estimate of the losses will be released on February 21, 12 months after the event end date.