Community leaders in Clatsop County are taking stock of new draft flood risk maps presented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Although the maps are still in the early stages, initial data ...

Fathom, acquired by Swiss Re in December 2023, provides flood hazard and terrain datasets that capture extreme outcomes.

The real estate website scrubbed the data under pressure from California’s real estate brokers and agents who were concerned ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a supercomputer tool called TRITON to advance flood risk modeling. The tool uses supercomputers to run complex calculations, reducing simulation times from ...

Work follows Swiss Re’s December 2023 acquisition of Fathom. Swiss Re has integrated Fathom data into its internal ...

Rainfall prediction has advanced rapidly with the adoption of machine learning, but most models remain optimized for overall ...

Recent decades have seen a rapid surge in damages and disruptions caused by flooding. Experts call on scientists to more accurately model these risks and caution against overly dramatized reporting of ...

A letter from First Street to a North Carolina property owner now admits their property is in an "area of known limitation within our model." According to First Street it means they "have reduced ...

Flooding poses significant risks to communities in wetlands and densely urbanized regions, necessitating robust prevention ...