Climate change impacts threaten the stability of the US housing market. In response to growing concerns that increasing costs of flooding are not fully captured in property values, we quantify the ...

Flood depth-damage functions (DDFs) are valuable in providing rapid estimates of economic loss as a function of flood depths 1,2,3,4,5. DDFs are developed by one of two primary methods—through ...

Traditional methods of communicating how likely an area is to flood focus on designating which zones are 'high risk.' This study suggests that this framing may give developers and homeowners a false ...

HOUSTON – The Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) has postponed plans to integrate flood risk ratings into property listings, citing concerns over data interpretation and accuracy. However, home ...