Map shows potential flood risk in areas of the Southeast in the wake of Hurricane Helene. NOAA/National Hurricane Center Ahead of its landfall, Helene rapidly intensified over the record-warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The high ocean temperature level at this location were made 200 times ...
Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately inhabit flood-prone areas. This study explores the geography of flood exposure and social vulnerability in the conterminous United...
Texas Flooding by the Numbers Texas is home to cities at risk of flooding due to the sheer amount of rain, size of coastal surge events, and the amount of development in flood vulnerable areas. The State has experienced some of the largest rainfall accumulations and flood magnitudes in the ...
Mobley W, Sebastian A, Blessing R, Highfield WE, Stearns L, Brody SD (2021) Quantification of continuous flood hazard using random forest classification and flood insurance claims at large spatial scales: a pilot study in southeast Texas. Nat Hazard 21(2):807–822. https://doi.org/10.5194/...
The U.S. Coast Guard said they had medevaced an hours-old baby from Cleveland, Texas, amid the floodwaters. May 4, 2024 Deluge 2023: Remembering Fort Lauderdale's historic flooding 1 year later In April 2023, Fort Lauderdale suffered major damages after a monumental downpour flooded the city...
This study incorporates a GIS based weighted multi-criteria analysis to determine flood prone areas in Harris County, Texas by integrating nine flood conditioning factors such as slope, elevation, soil type, rainfall intensity, flow accumulation, LULC, NDVI and distance from river and distance from ...
(<1% Black) of Black census tracts. Areas with high Black population proportions are clearly concentrated across the Deep South (Fig.3c), in the very locations where climate change is expected to intensify flood risk (Fig.2c). Urban and rural areas alike from Texas through Florida to ...
Maps of inundation for the part of Texas most heavily impacted by Hurricane Harvey are shown in Fig. 3 for both before (Fig. 3a) and after (Fig. 3b) the hurricane. Regions in yellow outline inundated areas, which significantly expanded in the aftermath of the hurricane. Figure 3c,d show...
"Earth-orbiting radar satellites provide us with an opportunity to map areas when other techniques fail due to cloud coverage and lack of ground access to the area of the disaster," says Miller. In analyzing the satellite data, Miller and Shirzaei were surprised to see that large flooded are...
first-floor elevation (FFE); flood risk reduction; flood mapping; unmanned aerial system (UAS); spatial statistics; case studies; Puerto Rico; Netherlands; USA; Texas1. Introduction Floods remain the costliest and most frequently occurring natural disaster globally. Communities must prepare for and ...