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USACE releases national flood exposure dataset for all US states

Original: Development Of A National-Scale Fluvial Flood Exposure Dataset For The Conterminous United States, Alaska, And Hawaiʻi [

The US Army Corps of Engineers has published a national-scale fluvial flood exposure dataset covering the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaiʻi, made openly available via DOI. The dataset is aimed at helping researchers and planners assess which populations and assets lie in areas at risk of river flooding across the entire country.

Why now: Growing public and scientific interest in flood risk mapping as climate change intensifies flooding across the United States.

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