Wind Risk To Increase For 10 Million Americans
Over 68 million residential and business properties in the US have “wind risk.” This comes from an analysis of 143.8 million properties using the First Street Foundation Wind Model. The exposure of the 68 million properties is based on models that show the chance of a property being hit by wind above 38 miles per hour during the next 30 years. The number will increase to 76 million properties in 30 years, a rise of 13%.
More hurricane risk: Miami’s wind trouble.
According to the organization:
The First Street Foundation Wind Model considers a location’s current and future risk specifically from hurricane winds. To build an understanding of this risk, tens of thousands of synthetic, computer-modeled hurricane tracks are used to build estimates of likely wind speed under the influence of a changing climate. For every location, the likely exposure to extreme wind is calculated for today and 30 years into the future and takes into account the local conditions such as the roughness of the landscape surrounding a property.
Based on the model’s methodology, wind risk is primarily linked to hurricanes. Because of this, all of the 15 million properties at “extreme risk” are located along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. “Extreme risk” is at wind levels over 77 miles per hour. The risk drops sharply for properties the further they are located inland from these coasts.
The wind model allows properties to be searched by address.
Computer models showing the effects of climate change become more sophisticated by the day. AI software will accelerate this at an unimaginable pace. More amazing than this pace is that the population continues to grow in areas at greatest peril for high wind. It is as if the risk did not exist at all.
