First Street Foundation

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Mission

First Street Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to quantify and communicate America's flood risk

First Street Foundation leverages the latest scientific methods and models. Its team of best in class researchers quantify the total flood risk for every home in America, today and well into the future, and its software engineers and communicators make this information available to the public.

First Street Foundation currently offers flood risk projections for 18 states via Flood iQ, and will continue to conduct this breakthrough research until tidal flood risk and property value loss data is available for all coastal communities.

Disaster Reduction Goal

First Street Foundation has teamed up with cutting edge researchers and scientists to build a comprehensive data set of the past, current, and future flood risk for every property in America, available for free on FloodiQ.com.

DRR activities

Websites

https://firststreet.org/
https://floodiq.com/
https://sealevelrise.org/

The organization has no registered commitments.

allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

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4 February 2025

The 12th national risk assessment: Property prices in peril

This report explores the indirect effects of the acute impacts of climate damages on the costs of living via risk-based insurance premiums as well as chronic climate exposure and its impact on the livability of neighborhoods and human mobility in the US.

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24 January 2024

Over 3.2 million Americans have left high flood risk neighborhoods creating “climate abandonment areas"

Study finds that over the next 30 years, the current Climate Abandonment Areas are expected to decline an additional 16%, some 2.5 million people, due to flood risk.

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27 June 2023

Highlights from "The Precipitation Problem"

As discussed in the report, “The 8th National Risk Assessment: The Precipitation Problem,” as air temperatures increase, more water vapor may be held in the atmosphere and discharged during rainfall events.

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27 June 2023

The 8th National Risk Assessment: The Precipitation Problem

The report discusses that as air temperatures increase, more water vapor may be held in the atmosphere and discharged during rainfall events. For every 1°C increase, 7% more water vapor is carried by the same air volume.

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16 August 2022

Emerging “extreme heat belt” will impact over 107 million Americans by 2053

New research from First Street Foundation finds that about 8 million people in the United States this year will be under "Extreme Heat", and grows to impact about 107 million people in 2053.

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17 May 2022

Highlights from "Fueling the Flames"

The First Street Foundation launches the First Street Foundation Wildfire Model, estimating the risk of wildfire on a property-by-property basis across the United States today, and up to 30 years into the future.

Publication

21 December 2021

The 4th national risk assessment: Climbing commercial closures

This report presents new methodology developed and applied for estimating vulnerability in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of risk.

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12 October 2021

Nationwide resilience report finding 25% of all critical infrastructure and 23% of roads have flood risk

First Street Foundation's first ever nationwide community level flood resilience report highlights the flood risk over a 30 year period for every city and county across the conterminous United States.