FEMA Maps Hugely Underestimate US Flood Damage Risk (Futurity)

FEMA Maps Hugely Underestimate US Flood Damage Risk

  Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 Source: Futurity

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to predict where flood damage is likely to happen in the continental United States. The findings suggest that recent flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency do not capture the full extent of flood risk.

In the study, researchers found a high probability of flood damage - including monetary damage, human injury, and loss of life - for more than a million square miles of land across the United States across a 14-year period.

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 for Geospatial Analytics and lead author of the Environmental Research Letters paper.

‘There are a lot of places that are susceptible to flooding, and because they’re outside the floodplain, that means they do not have to abide by insurance, building code, and land-use requirements that could help protect people and property.’

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