Case Study: Schweizer Hagel improves crop risk assessment with Meteomatics weather data

Schweizer Hagel Uses Weather Data From Meteomatics To Calculate Environmental Risk to Agricultural Crops

Schweizer Hagel, a cooperative agricultural insurer serving farms in Switzerland, France, and Italy, needed highly accurate local weather data and long historical time series to assess crop risks fairly and set competitive, risk-appropriate premiums. The company also wanted flexible access to a wide range of weather parameters, including drought, hail, heavy rain, lightning, storms, and frost.

Meteomatics provided its Weather API, giving Schweizer Hagel seamless access to historical, current, and forecast weather data through a single interface. With Meteomatics, Schweizer Hagel improved efficiency, saved significant time in risk analysis, and launched the Swiss Agro Index portal for customers to visualize weather-related crop risks and monitor anomalies, drought, heat, and frost conditions.

Schweizer Hagel

Guendalina Barloggio

Research Associate