Do You Know Your Home’s True Flood Risk?

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:29:55 +0000

11/18/24 – Do you know your home’s true flood risk? In October, National Geographic ran an insightful article by Meryl Davids Landau titled “Many Americans are buying homes in flood zones – and don’t realize it.” The article begins, “The Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete […]

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Scientists Quantify Flood-Damage-Reduction Benefit of Texas Wetlands

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:57:46 +0000

A study by Samuel D. Brody, Sammy Zahran, Wesley E. Highfield, Himanshu Grover, and Arnold Vedlitz called “Identifying the impact of the built environment on flood damage in Texas” quantifies the flood reduction benefits of wetlands along the Gulf coast. The authors studied property damage in 423 floods between 1997 and 2001. They identified the […]

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Do You Know Your Home’s True Flood Risk?

Scientists Quantify Flood-Damage-Reduction Benefit of Texas Wetlands