After a weekend of severe flash flooding across the DMV, including Montgomery County and Silver Spring, the Metropolitan ...

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.

How should flood risk assessments be done in changing climate? Date: August 4, 2014 Source: Wiley Summary: Growing consensus on climate and land use change means that it is reasonable to assume ...

The report, titled "The Third National Flood Risk Assessment: Infrastructure on the Brink," takes into account all types of floods, including slow-motion river flooding, fast-moving flash flooding ...

Climate uncertainty colors flood risk assessment Date: November 19, 2021 Source: Penn State Summary: Understanding how climate change will affect the flooding of rivers may become easier with a ...

Growing consensus on climate and land use change means that it is reasonable to assume, at the very least, that flood levels in a region may change. Then why, ask Rosner et al. in a new study, do ...

In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate ...