The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Flood Awareness applies new and emerging technologies to improve community resilience from flood disasters. Our goals are to reduce flood fatalities and property losses, as well as enhance community-wide resiliency to disruptive flood events. Created at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Flood focuses on three goals for improving the performance of the flood management community. Each of these can be addressed to a significant extent by transitioning new technologies, new analytics and new policy approaches that leverage the R&D advances that Flood is sponsoring and partnering on.
- Improve Disaster Response and Event Management
- Enhance Individual and Business Flood Resilience
- Enhance Community Resilience and functional recovery
Research has now been largely completed. The program will be expanding its community pilots and operational experiments to support final R&D and transition activities in alignment with the program lifecycle. For transition, Flood is working intensively with FEMA and other transition partners to plan for hand-offs of Flood material solutions and knowledge products.
Watch the Flood Program video
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services Partnering to Plan for Flood Risk Fact Sheet
- Community Hazard Assessment and Mitigation Planning System (CHAMPS) Assessed to Help Mitigate Disasters Fact Sheet
- Community Lifeline Status System (CLSS)
- Community Oriented Decision Support for Compound Flood Events Fact Sheet
- Developing Risk-Based Metrics for Flood Resilience to Support Community Investment Strategies Fact Sheet
- Flood Analytics: Improving Risk Assessment and Community Resilience Fact Sheet
- Flood Risk Assessment and Reduction Community Guidebook
- Flood Sensor Technology Video
- Internet of Things (IoT): Low-Cost Flood Inundation Sensors Fact Sheet
- Low-Cost Flood Sensors: Innovation for Dam Safety Monitoring
- Low-Cost Flood Sensors: Performance Analysis
- Low-Cost Flood Sensors Urban Installation Guidebook
- Low-Cost Internet of Things (IOT) Flood Inundation Sensors- Stakeholder Feedback
- The Mandatory (Flood Insurance) Purchase Requirement (pdf, 19 pages, 946kb)
- Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard Fact Sheet and Video
- Feature Article: Giving a Dam Some Much-Needed Support with Innovative Materials
- Feature Article: Building Community Climate Resilience with Compound-Flood Modeling Tools
- News Release: DHS S&T Partners with Fannie Mae to Improve Use of Flood Insurance
- Feature Article: New Guidebooks Help Urban Communities Install Low-Cost Sensors to Reduce Flood Risks
- Snapshot: S&T, N.C. Partner to Test Flood Sensors, Build Resilience
- Snapshot: S&T Supports FEMA with Comprehensive Flood Insurance Report
- News Release: DHS S&T Partners with Local Communities to Improve Flood Resiliency
- Snapshot: National Conversation on Homeland Security Technology: Commercial Flood Insurance Roundtable
- Snapshot: S&T Helps Train Public Safety Practitioners in Flood Preparation
- Snapshot: Making Flood Forecasting Easier, Faster