The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Flood Insurance Rate Map was overlaid to assess the flood risk of each OTP facility. Hurricane Harvey's inundation map was also superimposed to estimate the proportion of OTP facilities flooded after the hurricane. For OTPs not inundated by the hurricane,...
the Harris County Flood Control District, which includes the city of Houston, found thathalf of the 204,000 homes that floodedwere outside the federal hazard zone. According to FEMA,40% of claimsmade through its National Flood Insurance Program...
Going beyond the flood insurance rate map: Insights from flood hazard map co-production Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18 (4) (2018), 10.5194/nhess-18-1097-2018 2018 Google Scholar Ma and Smith, 2020 C. Ma, T. Smith Vulnerability of renters and Low-income households to storm ...
Flood insurance coverslosses directly caused by flooding. ... Property outside of an insured building. For example, landscaping, wells, septic systems, decks and patios, fences, seawalls, hot tubs, and swimming pools. Financial losses caused by business interruption. Where in Texas is there no ...
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(2010) combined map layers of tract-level social vulnerability and remotely sensed flood depths from Hurricane Katrina. They used the resulting bivariate map to assess correlation with the rate of recovery. In a similar vein, Koks et al. (2015) combined GIS layers of 50-meter flood hazard, ...
In order to approach the goal of visualizing floodplains, the floodplain map library (FPML) as a new hydraulic prediction tool has been developed for White Oak, one of the major urban watersheds in Houston. The similar methodology was used to develop the Brays Bayou FPML, which is currently...
EMS, Fire and Disaster ManagementJacob Spenn, William Meyer, John Grounds IIIAfter the devastation of Tropical Storm Allison, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Harris County Flood Control District joined forces to develop new Flood Insurance Rate Maps for Harris County, Texas. These ...
Going beyond the flood insurance rate map: Insights from flood hazard map co-production. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 2018, 18, 1097–1120. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version] Costabile, P.; Costanzo, C.; de Lorenzo, G.; de Santis, R.; Penna, N.; Macchione, F. ...
[73] estimated the extent and depth of floodwater in the Houston area after Hurricane Harvey using data from LiDAR DEM and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAVSAR). The flood’s extent was observed to decrease between 29 and 30 August and 5...