Des Moines purchases 78 flood-damaged homes for $10.5 million
Following the June 2018 flood in Des Moines that dropped 8+ inches of rain in one night, the city has purchased nearly 80 flood-damaged homes.
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Iowa Flood Center Receives National Recognition
The Iowa Flood Center is featured in a new national Report on Alerting Tactics released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate.
USGS Working to Restore Streamgauges
Requests for Stream Sensors
As floods continue to impact the safety and economic stability of our communities, infrastructure, and valuable farmland, the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) requests your feedback to determine where additional stream sensors are needed to enhance the flood monitoring and prediction capabilities in your area. With this in mind, we are collecting a list of proposed […]
Rare Fall Flooding Swamps Iowa
Normally, late August and early September are fairly dry in Iowa. Just how rare is the heavy rainfall that’s fallen across Iowa over the past 10 days? To answer that question, Professor Gabriele Villarini, a faculty affiliate of the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa, worked with Assistant Research Scientist Wei Zhang to […]
3 questions to ask as we prepare for the next disaster
Communities should ask these three important questions to help themselves become more resilient to disasters. Read more…
June Flooding Slams Iowa
The Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa provides 24/7, up-to-the-minute information on current flood conditions on the Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS), which is available to the public online. IFIS provides current stream levels, flood alerts and forecasts, inundation maps for many river communities, and more.
Fishing for Fords
Until recently, finding lost cars was not part of Nate Young’s job description. Yet that is precisely what he and fellow Iowa Flood Center (IFC) engineer Dan Gilles found themselves doing on May 11. Beneath overcast skies, Young, associate director of the IFC, and Gilles, a water resources engineer, boated up and down the Iowa […]
IFC Releases New Flood Inundation Maps
The Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS) is an evolving web tool that is continually expanding the scope of its features. IFIS now offers Iowans access to flood inundation maps for 24 Iowa communities, up from 10 communities in 2013. Flood inundation maps are particularly useful during flood events to help people visualize the potential extent of […]
Modeling the Costs of Flood Damage
In May 2017, the Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS) added data to the web from HAZUS, which allows users to estimate the cost of flood damages to buildings and other structures in various flooding scenarios. HAZUS data is currently available for seven Iowa communities, and Iowa Flood Center (IFC) researchers are working to expand the […]
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