External tool only
FloodRISE
University of California, Irvine · released 2016, availability has varied since
A UC Irvine research project modeling compound flooding from sea-level rise, storm surge, and inland stormwater runoff together for Orange County's Newport Bay — showing how these hazards interact rather than treating them separately. External tool only: no data-reuse license was found. Its UCI Blum Center project page carries an “All Rights Reserved” copyright footer, and no terms of use were found for its live flood hazard viewers, which are hosted on a floodrise.uci.edu subdomain.
General Information
- URL
- Link unverified
- Geographic scope within coastal California
- Newport Bay / Orange County, California
- Tool release year and updates
- 2016, availability has varied since
Projected Flood Information
- Annual flood risk
- No
- Annual flood risk (various return periods)
- No
- Base flood elevation
- No
- Coastal groundwater flooding
- No
- Erosion projections
- No
- FEMA flood zones
- No
- High tide flooding thresholds (minor/moderate/major)
- No
- King tide
- No
- Mapping uncertainty / confidence layers
- No
- Marsh migration space
- No
- Near-100-year storm scenario
- No
- Shoreline erosion
- No
- Storm surge / extreme tide
- Yes
- Stormwater / compound flooding
- Yes
- Wave run-up
- No
Shoreline Processes
- Coastal flood thresholds
- No
- Coastal groundwater
- No
- Compound flooding with stormwater runoff
- Yes
- Dynamic hydrodynamic modeling
- No
- Erosion / shoreline change
- No
- Habitat-based risk reduction
- No
- High tide flooding
- No
- Hurricane storm surge
- No
- King tide
- No
- Levee overtopping
- No
- Marsh migration
- No
- Marsh migration / habitat change
- No
- Regulatory base flood elevation
- No
- Riverine and coastal flood zones
- No
- SLR inundation
- Yes
- Shoreline erosion
- No
- Shoreline overtopping
- No
- Storm surge / extreme tide
- Yes
- Tide-gauge monitoring
- No
- Wave run-up
- No
Exposure Analysis Provided on Flooding Impacts to Assets
- Critical facilities
- No
- Economic / property value
- No
- Infrastructure & buildings
- Yes
- Natural resources / habitats
- No
- Population / demographics
- Yes
Data, Reports, and Summary Information Available
- Reports, summary info, or other analyses available for download
- Academic reports and journal publications; interactive viewer availability has varied.
General Information Regarding Sea Level Rise Model
- Base sea level rise model
- Custom hydrodynamic model developed by UCI researchers, funded by NOAA and Sea Grant.
Strengths and Limitations
- Top 3 strengths
- Pioneered “compound flooding” analysis combining ocean and stormwater hazards
- Strong peer-reviewed academic foundation
- Detailed local modeling for a specific vulnerable community
- Top 3 limitations
- Very limited geographic coverage (Newport Bay area only)
- As a university research project, long-term public hosting isn't guaranteed
- No current public tool link could be confirmed