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Post-hurricane imagery from NOAA Remote Sensing Division, Google, and Woolpert.
Hurricane Harvey damaged at least 69,000 properties in the county. The Harris County Flood Control District prioritizes buyouts in neighborhoods where flooding can’t be fixed through...
Pounding rains and rapidly rising floodwaters caused by Hurricane Harvey inundated the city of Houston, a metropolitan area of 6.6 million. The storm made landfall late Friday as a Category...
Nineteen inundation maps and detailed flood information from Hurricane Harvey are now available from the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
An interactive tool designed to communicate and share changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) effective floodplain models for Harris County. Floodplain Reference Marks. Reference marks play an important role in the permitting of development and administration of the National Flood Insurance Program in Harris County ...
Physical Vulnerability. Hurricane Harvey was one of the highest cost natural disasters in the nation. First making landfall near Port Aransas, Texas, its high winds of 132 mph and storm surge of six to seven feet, destroyed the community.
The map shows the overlap of FEMA floodplains and buildings that received FEMA assistance after Hurricane Harvey. Each dot is representative of one building that received assistance, and the blue-hatched areas represent documented FEMA floodplains.
Hurricane Harvey. The U.S. Geological Survey has deployed storm-tide sensors, forecast what coastal change to expect, and is ready to measure the extent of flooding likely to result from this powerful storm, Hurricane Harvey. Event Support Map. Track hurricane data and USGS resources. View Tool. Flood Event Viewer (FEV)
Harris County Boundary. – Areas delineated on a Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM or floodplain map) that are at risk for flooding from a bayou, creek or other waterway overflowing its banks during certain rainfall or storm-related events.
Map. Houston. Urban Institute. (The maps below show the extent of Hurricane's Harvey flooding in Houston, along with key housing variables. Although the flood maps indicate which areas were hardest hit, not all homes in flooded areas will suffer flood damage.