One of the biggest drivers of flood damage risk was proximity to astream, along with elevation and the average amount of extreme precipitation per year. The three Census regions with the highest probability were in the Southeast. Louisiana, Missouri, the District of Columbia, Florida, and Mississ...
“This is the first spatially complete map of flood damage probability for the United States—wall-to-wall information that can be used to learn more about flood risk in vulnerable, underrepresented communities,” says Ross Meentemeyer, professor of geospatial analytics. To create their computer mo...
the Virgin Islands, the Florida Keys, and the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Some areas had totals of1 to 2 feet of rain over two days. In the end, 602 people died, mostly in the Dominican Republic
Almost two years after a group of independent claims adjusters alleged that insurers had deceptively altered their damage estimates and low-balled policyholders, Florida’s chief financial officer has issued an emergency rule barring similar actions in Hurricane Milton claims. “Any move in a positive...
units—eventually building some 300 special vehicles and stationing them across the country at its regional facilities. it tried to repurpose them for natural disasters. following hurricane andrew in 1992, fema dispatched mers units to help the residents of hard-hit homestead, florida, but found ...
he said toviewers of CNNThursday afternoon, as Hurricane Irene was barreling up the Florida coast. We “really want to reserve particularly the phone lines and cell service for the emergency calls, 911 calls, and try to reduce that congestion. But that means ahead of time having a plan of...
Not surprisingly, coastal states are particularly vulnerable — more than 1 in 5 properties in Florida and Louisiana is a flood risk today. But the threat is also apparent much farther inland. In landlocked West Virginia, for example, nearly half of the properties in some counties are in d...