FEMA Puts New Data on the Map for Policymakers

Anna Weber
Natural Resources Defense Council

From record-breaking river levels that lasted for months in the Midwest to Tropical Depression Imelda, which produced torrential rains in Texas, 2019 was a major year for flooding across the United States. The year also marked a milestone in the availability of data on flood damages, when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released two large National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) data sets on June 11.