Flood

AIR has a long and proud history of sending out engineering teams to conduct damage surveys in the wake of major catastrophe events.

For the second time in two years, Canada is experiencing major flooding. The most seriously impacted areas are in Ontario and Quebec, but parts of New Brunswick are also affected.

In recent years, modeling technology has advanced to add flood risk estimation to the insurer's toolkit. Aided by increased computational power and high-quality digital data sets, models now allow probabilistic simulation of flood risk at a national scale.

Late January storms dumped more than 1 meter of rain within 48 hours on parts of Queensland in northeastern Australia, and widespread flooding ensued.

The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and this critical program currently finds itself in dire straits.

AIR conducted a flood damage survey in two heavily damaged cities, Lumberton and Trenton, North Carolina, both inundated with between 1 and 2 feet of water.

Southeastern North Carolina is home to two major sources of pollution—hog waste lagoons and coal ash pits—that contaminated floodwaters following Hurricane Florence.

Read AIR’s flood damage survey of the Lumber and Trent river basins following the severe flooding from Hurricane Florence’s record precipitation.

Typhoon Ida made landfall in Japan 60 years ago, bringing record levels of precipitation to Tokyo and nearby provinces, causing devastating mudslides and flooding.

For the last two weeks or so southwestern India has seen unusually heavy precipitation and major flooding.