Weather Source: OnPoint Risk Analytics - Flooding, Hurricanes, Wildfires and More

The climate and peril risk modeling at a spatial resolution of 30 square meters is especially important for flood modeling where slight changes in ground elevation can make big differences in flood potential for locations near rivers and coastlines. Each climate and peril risk model will provide relative risk rankings for any requested location(s). The relative risk rankings are provided as a percentage of the sorted distribution of event frequencies from a group of locations, where the group can be defined as the entire globe, a region, or a country. In addition to providing relative risk rankings for many perils, the service will also provide return period event levels for common return period ranges, such as 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500 years (e.g., a 50-year return period for flooding for a location may be 1.5 meters of flood water and what this means is that on average for any 50-year period, the maximum expected flood level would be 1.5 meters).