Flood Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainable Environments (FloodRISE) data

Existing needs to manage flood risk in the U.S. are underserved by available flood hazard information. This contributes to an alarming escalation of flood impacts that amount to hundreds of billions of dollars per year and countless disrupted lives and affected communities. Making information about flood hazards useful for the range of decisions by actors that dictate the consequences of flooding poses many challenges.

This dataset contains a collection of flood hazard mapping layers for two sites in Southern California: Newport Bay and the Tijuana River Estuary. The flood hazard data layers were created using a Collaborative Flood Modeling (CFM) approach, whereby researchers and end-users at the two coastal sites co-developed fine-resolution flood hazard models and maps responsive to decision-making needs.