Reports
Coastal Flood Risk to Affordable Housing Projected to Triple by 2050
Description: The number of affordable housing units at risk from coastal flooding and sea level rise is expected to more than triple by 2050.
Date: December 2020
Future Flood Risk: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
Description: An assessment of the sea level rise and coastal flood risk to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a series of historic sites stretching from Maryland’s Eastern shore to Philadelphia.
Date: April 2021
Flooded Future: Global vulnerability to sea level rise worse than previously understood
- As a result of heat-trapping pollution from human activities, rising sea levels could within three decades push chronic floods higher than land currently home to 300 million people
- By 2100, areas now home to 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line
- The new figures are the result of an improved global elevation dataset produced by Climate Central using machine learning, and revealing that coastal elevations are significantly lower than previously understood across wide areas
- The threat is concentrated in coastal Asia and could have profound economic and political consequences within the lifetimes of people alive today
- Findings are documented in a new peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature Communications
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Report: Web Version and PDF
Ocean at the Door: New Homes and the Rising Sea
Description: Recent housing growth rates are faster in ten-year flood-risk zones in a third of all coastal states. This report was updated in July 2019 with new data.
Date: July 2019
These U.S. Cities Are Most Vulnerable to Major Coastal Flooding and Sea Level Rise
Description: On the five-year anniversary of the storm, Climate Central has ranked the U.S. cities most vulnerable to major coastal floods
Date: October 2017