NOAA Coastal Services Center, as part of their Digital Coast program, has assembled a Coastal Inundation Toolkit.
The new "Visualize" section allows users to learn how different types of visualizations can help communities understand their inundation risks and vulnerabilities. The "Picture It" page offers tools and local examples of how photos, maps, and, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, mapping, planning, sea level rise
Need to quickly check to see which flood zone a property is in? Have Google Earth installed on your computer (it's free, though you may need administrative rights to install it on your computer)? FEMA has a page explaining how to get those pesky FIRMs into your mapping system. Read about it here:
Using the National Flood Hazard Layer Web Map Service (WMS), »read moreTags: hazard identification, mapping, planning
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has voted unanimously to pass a development plan for land within 100 feet of the bay's coastline. The plan—which requires that decisions about land use in the area consider factors including the latest climate science and the importance of wetland restoration—gives the agency a tool to deny, »read moreTags: case study, climate change, hazard identification, planning, regulations, sea level rise
Tags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, planning, sea level rise, video, weather & climate
Most of the general public (69%) doesn’t believe that they are at risk of flooding, though most (68%) local official know many are wrong to feel so safe. The public wants to hear about flood risk from municipal/county officials (47% want the mayor, 32% the floodplain manager)—unfortunately, nearly half (45%) report that they “never” do., »read more
We at StormSmart are big fans of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium's Coastal Community Resilience Index. For those not familiar with it, the Coastal Community Resilience Index (CRI) is a simple tool that provides a snapshot of a community’s resilience, and can help identify opportunities to improve.
Designed to take as little as two hours to, »read moreTags: hazard identification, publications, training & outreach
Have a look at the new Miami-Dade County Storm Surge Simulator which lets you click on a map to show where you live and then select the severity of the storm before it shows you just how deep that water will be when that next hurricane hits. You can even select whether you want to see the depth shown on a person, a home, or a villa (I did mention this was, »read moreTags: hazard identification, mapping, planning, technology, training & outreach, weather & climate
As reported in the New York Times, last week (at the Coastal Zone conference in Chicago), FEMA shared some results from a pending study looking at the projected effects of climate change on the National Flood Insurance Program.
The short version? It's not looking pretty, and the challenges won't be confined to coastal areas either. Floodplains are going, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, planning, sea level rise, weather & climate
The US Senate is considering an extension to the NFIP that would add a provision wherein the government would assign a ratio of damage caused by water (covered by the NFIP) vs wind (generally covered by homeowner's insurance).
The Coastal Act would use data already gathered by NOAA and FEMA to determine the breakdown.
You can read the (S.1091 - Flood, »read moreTags: hazard identification, insurance
Somehow we'd missed this tool, but the USGS has built a handy tool for finding current stream/river levels. File this away to use during your next storm event.
USGS WaterWatch
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