Previsico partners with Snapshot Live on flood monitoring platform

Previsico has added live visual monitoring to its Flood Intelligence Platform through a partnership with Snapshot Live, giving flood risk teams a way to see what is happening on the ground instead of inferring it from models and telemetry alone. The setup uses Snapshot Live’s solar-powered, off-grid cellular cameras, a practical fit for sites where traditional infrastructure is weak or unreliable, and it is aimed squarely at the moments when operators have to decide whether to protect assets, move equipment, or escalate response.

The pitch goes beyond simple monitoring. Previsico already says its Flood Intel Platform delivers property-level flood warnings up to 48 hours in advance using live hydrodynamic modelling, along with government flood warnings, surface-water forecasts, on-site sensor alerts, weather feeds, mapping and API access. It also folds in sensor-driven insight on drainage performance, hydrological systems, groundwater and wastewater assets. Adding cameras changes the decision layer: a risk team can confirm whether water is actually overtopping a curb, whether debris is blocking drainage, or whether a site that looks calm on a dashboard is already taking on water.

That matters because Previsico has been widening the platform’s capabilities for months. On December 5, 2025, the company launched Flood Intelligence 2.0, moving from deterministic to probabilistic forecasting and adding hourly updates, 24 hours of retrospective analysis, a cleaner interface and an improved API. The Snapshot Live tie-up fits that direction. The more layers Previsico can stack, the easier it becomes for insurers, infrastructure operators and commercial clients to translate a flood warning into alerting, underwriting refinement, exposure management, FNOL prioritization and claims triage.

The business case is built on big numbers. Previsico says the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program paid $1.4 billion in claims in 2024, that 10x return on investment is typical for large asset owners, and that a Lloyd’s Lab report found 70% of commercial flood losses can be mitigated. The company also says actionable flood warnings can cut more than half of flood risk impacts, while global pluvial flood losses could reach $850 billion a year by 2050. Those figures explain why visual confirmation is becoming more than a nice-to-have: carriers and risk managers want fewer blind spots, not another data feed.

Previsico has already used its own platform to prove the point. The company says Balfour Beatty VINCI received a site-specific flood alert with 36 hours to prepare at the River Blythe site on HS2, and later accountings said forecasting plus live IoT sensor monitoring helped move expensive equipment and materials before flood damage hit. Previsico already works with Liberty, Zurich and Generali, and it closed a Series A in October 2025 backed by Connecticut Innovations, BlueOrchard Finance Limited, Burnt Island Ventures and Foresight Capital. The Snapshot Live partnership suggests the company is betting that the next step in flood intelligence is not just better prediction, but better operational control once the water starts rising.