That was more than 790,000 square miles greater than flood risk zones identified by FEMA’s maps. “We’re seeing that there’s a lot of flood damage being reported outside of the 100-year floodplain,” says Elyssa Collins, a doctoral candidate in the North Carolina State University Center...
Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte, North Carolina,have been includingcurrent and future floodplains on its official maps. The Harris County Flood District has worked with FEMA to update its maps, which when released, later this year, will be the first in the nation to incorporate ur...
North Carolina's Helene cleanup efforts begin Towns like Marshall, North Carolina, positioned next to the French Broad River, are working to clean up the mud caused by Hurricane Helene flooding. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports on the situation. ...
Geography Spatiotemporal analysis of socioeconomic exposure to assess flood policy effectiveness THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Martin Doyle PattersonLauren AnneAfter nearly a century of flood policies in the U.S., losses have continued to increase. This thesis examined the potential ...
Maria Parazo Rose is a spatial data analyst at Grist, where she reports on and makes maps about Indigenous affairs, fortress conservation, and climate migration. Her work can be found in Grist, the New York Focus, Popular Science, The Allegheny Front, and NPR. ...
Through evocative personal stories, maps, tables, and dozens of striking photographs, "Faces from the Flood" highlights the dramatic impact of Hurricane Floyd. It will serve as a valuable reference for future explorations of North Carolina's greatest disaster. Faces from the Flood 2024 pdf epub ...
Combining such maps with the estimated vulnerability of buildings to damage can be used to determine the risk storm surge poses to the built environment. In the USA, flood mapping dictating insurance premiums which ideally reflect this risk is governed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (...
However, flood hazard studies to date typically rely on single flooding events to create flood maps and to evaluate flood hazards using satellite imagery. Here we use geographic information systems to analyze weekly water level data from 304 river gauges and over 1200 groundwater gauges from the ...
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
flooding;FEMAofficials say the new maps will allow for better zoning and help prevent future catastrophes like the June 2008 flood in Iowa, which caused an estimated $10 billion in damage; cities, developers, and residents say newFEMAflood plain maps are full of mistakes that could prove ...