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Build Resilience

Safeguard communities for enduring impact

Stories of Impact

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Floodwater covers a road intersection up to the curbside traffic signals during a storm.
Build Resilience

When the Next Flood Hits, Will Your City Be Ready?

Sea Level Rise Meets Sinking Land in a Region the Nation Depends On

Data Visualization

Map of central Virginia Beach shading modeled maximum flood depth during Hurricane Matthew, with floodwater following storm drainage channels through neighborhoods and a legend grading water depth from half a foot to ten feet.
This map shows the modeled maximum flood extent and water depth in central Virginia Beach during Hurricane Matthew in October 2016. Using a Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) street-level inundation model, researchers can examine how a real storm affected individual streets and neighborhoods, then use that event as a baseline for scenarios exploring how similar storms could produce different flooding as sea levels rise. Those scenarios can help communities stress-test infrastructure and emergency plans before the next major flood. Credit: NASA; J. Derek Loftis, Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary.

Resources & Learning

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False-color satellite imagery of a city and surrounding terrain, as displayed in the Custom Visualization Tool
Prepare

PORTAL 101

A page-by-page guide to the NASA Disasters PORTAL

Map of sea surface height anomalies across the Americas and the Atlantic, with higher anomalies in orange and lower in blue.
Training

Sea Level Change Tools for Planning and Decision Support