Series · Climate & Perils
Windstorms
Europe's named winter storms, the continent's largest recurring insured natural peril: the Atlantic lows that arrive in clusters, shut down transport networks and set reinsurance pricing from Daria to Kyrill.
3 episodes
- Source
- XWS eXtreme WindStorms Catalogue
- Coverage
- 1981 to 2013 seasons · Europe and eastern North Atlantic ONLY
- Catalogue
- 52 named storms
- Peril type
- Meteorological (extratropical)
- Updated
- 2013 season
Record context · experienced risk · Europe only
New episode: Europe's Winter Storms
5 Jul 2026
Episodes
Three decades of major European windstorms plotted by date, severity and insured loss: the clusters, the outliers, and the jet stream behind them.
The XWS catalogue in full: name, date, countries hit, peak gust, storm severity index and indexed insured loss for each of the 52 storms.
The storm that shut a continent. On 18 January 2007 Kyrill drove hurricane-force gusts across seven countries, scoring the highest severity index of the major loss storms and costing 6.7 billion dollars indexed insured.