Flood Content

With Flood Risk Rising, Can Community-Based Insurance Fill a Gap?

Katherine E Kerlin — February 26, 2024 - 9:15am

�°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis helps Isleton, California, launch the state's first community insurance program focused on flood risk, climate adaptation and sustainability in Sacramento County.

Will a Wet Winter End Water Woes?

Andy Fell — March 27, 2023 - 4:17pm

After a series of dry winters in California, the 2022-23 season has brought a series of storms filling reservoirs and piling up the Sierra snowpack. The turnaround led Governor Gavin Newsom to announce the end of some drought-related conservation measures last Friday.

What FEMA's New Flood Risk Rating Means for Californians

Katherine E Kerlin — September 20, 2021 - 4:24pm

A team of �°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis scientists and flood experts have “reverse engineered” FEMA data regarding the federal agency’s new Risk Rating 2.0 to better understand expected premium changes for California policyholders down to the zip code.

Risk Rating 2.0 will be formally introduced on Oct. 1 and is considered FEMA’s most significant reform to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 50 years.

Realty Meets Climate Reality

Katherine E Kerlin — January 13, 2020 - 2:49pm

When climate change reality interrupts dreams of realty.

Small Towns, Big Flood Waters

tdus — May 15, 2019 - 12:31pm

Towns are escaping rising waters and protecting their communities from the impacts of climate change. Read this gripping story of resilience and adaptation.

Climate Change Threats and Solutions for the Sacramento Valley

Katherine E Kerlin — August 27, 2018 - 12:07pm

Over the next few decades, climate change is expected to make the Sacramento region hotter, drier and increasingly prone to extremes like megadroughts, flooding and large wildfires. This is expected to strain the region’s infrastructure for water and energy transmission, agricultural systems, plants and wildlife, public health, housing, and quality of life for the growing region.

Behind the Levee

Katherine E Kerlin — February 09, 2016 - 11:39am

People living behind levees on floodplains may not be as immune to flood damage as they think, according to results of a study led by the University of California, Davis.

Levees often prevent costly flood damages and even loss of life. However, when those levees overtop or fail, and water spills onto the floodplain, the long-term damage can be far worse than if those levees were not there, the study found.