First Street Foundation
First Street Foundation is a other that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
NOAA’s 1-in-100 year flooding can now be expected every 8 years
First Street Foundation released their peer-reviewed precipitation model that captures climate-driven changes in heavy rainfall events for the United States and describes the implications for flood risk across the Nation in their report, The 8th National Risk Assessment: The Precipitation Problem. The US government’s current gold standard for precipitation expectations was created by the National Oceanic […]
25% of all critical infrastructure in US has flood risk
First Street Foundation, the science and technology nonprofit that developed the First Street Foundation Flood Model and created Flood Factor, has released the first ever nationwide community level flood resilience report titled “The 3rd National Risk Assessment: Infrastructure on the Brink”, highlighting the flood risk over a 30 year period for every city and county […]
Climate change to increase cost of US flood damage by $34 billion in coming decade
New research from First Street Foundation quantifies the financial impacts of flood risk carried by American homeowners, and how those impacts are growing as flood risks worsen due to a rapidly changing climate. First Street Foundation found that there are nearly 4.3 million residential homes (1-4 units) across the country with substantial flood risk that […]