Assessing Current and Future Freshwater Flood Risk from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones via Insurance Claims
The most recent decades have witnessed record breaking losses associated with U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs). Flood-related damages represent a large portion of these losses, and although storm surge is typically the main focus in the media and of warnings, much of the TC flood losses are...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5288645 2023-05-15T17:33:11+02:00 Assessing Current and Future Freshwater Flood Risk from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones via Insurance Claims Czajkowski, Jeffrey Villarini, Gabriele Montgomery, Marilyn Michel-Kerjan, Erwann Goska, Radoslaw 2017-02-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288645/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28148952 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep41609 en eng Nature Publishing Group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288645/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28148952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41609 Copyright © 2017, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Article Text 2017 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/srep41609 2017-02-12T01:09:46Z The most recent decades have witnessed record breaking losses associated with U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs). Flood-related damages represent a large portion of these losses, and although storm surge is typically the main focus in the media and of warnings, much of the TC flood losses are instead freshwater-driven, often extending far inland from the landfall locations. Despite this actuality, knowledge of TC freshwater flood risk is still limited. Here we provide for the first time a comprehensive assessment of the TC freshwater flood risk from the full set of all significant flood events associated with U.S. landfalling TCs from 2001 to 2014. We find that the areas impacted by freshwater flooding are nearly equally divided between coastal and inland areas. We determine the statistical relationship between physical hazard and residential economic impact at a community level for the entire country. These results allow us to assess the potential future changes in TC freshwater flood risk due to changing climate pattern and urbanization in a more heavily populated U.S. Findings have important implications for flood risk management, insurance and resilience. Text North Atlantic PubMed Central (PMC) Scientific Reports 7 1 |
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The most recent decades have witnessed record breaking losses associated with U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs). Flood-related damages represent a large portion of these losses, and although storm surge is typically the main focus in the media and of warnings, much of the TC flood losses are instead freshwater-driven, often extending far inland from the landfall locations. Despite this actuality, knowledge of TC freshwater flood risk is still limited. Here we provide for the first time a comprehensive assessment of the TC freshwater flood risk from the full set of all significant flood events associated with U.S. landfalling TCs from 2001 to 2014. We find that the areas impacted by freshwater flooding are nearly equally divided between coastal and inland areas. We determine the statistical relationship between physical hazard and residential economic impact at a community level for the entire country. These results allow us to assess the potential future changes in TC freshwater flood risk due to changing climate pattern and urbanization in a more heavily populated U.S. Findings have important implications for flood risk management, insurance and resilience. |
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