Data & Coverage
From Flood Warnings to Actual Inundation. Understand the Full Picture.
Early flood intelligence. River observations. Inundation footprints. Flood depths. Historical events & impacts.
Flooding is among the most widespread and consequential natural hazards, affecting properties, infrastructure, communities, transportation networks, and global supply chains.
Yet understanding flood risk requires more than knowing where a warning has been issued.
DisasterAWARE delivers flood intelligence that connects authoritative warnings, proprietary early-warning indicators, hydrological measurements, available flood inundation footprints, estimated flood depths, and enriched historical flood records.
From identifying developing flood threats to understanding where water has been observed or modeled and which locations may be affected, our intelligence helps technology providers deliver a more complete picture of flood conditions and their consequences.
Designed for insurance, reinsurance, catastrophe analytics, risk intelligence, supply chain, business continuity, and enterprise technology platforms, DisasterAWARE makes supported flood intelligence available through APIs, webhooks, geospatial services, historical data delivery, and AI-native integrations.
Anticipate flooding. Understand where water is. Identify what may be affected.
Understand Flooding Before, During & After an Event.
Global Flood Warnings & Proprietary Early-Warning Intelligence
Anticipate developing flood threats through authoritative flood warnings, hydrological information, and supported predictive intelligence.
DisasterAWARE integrates warnings from national meteorological, hydrological, and disaster management agencies through CAP and other supported sources.
These warnings provide information about geographic areas where flooding may occur, expected timing, severity, and other available threat characteristics.
Our flood warning intelligence includes:
- •Riverine Flooding: Warnings related to rising rivers, streams, and waterways.
- •Flash Flooding: Alerts for rapidly developing flooding associated with intense rainfall or other conditions.
- •Heavy Rainfall & Flood Potential: Weather warnings indicating precipitation that may produce flooding.
- •Coastal Flooding: Available warnings associated with elevated coastal water levels and other coastal flood threats.
- •Other Flood Hazards: Additional flood-related alerts supported by individual agencies.
Proprietary Flood Early-Warning Intelligence
DisasterAWARE complements official warnings with supported scientific models and early-warning indicators designed to identify potential flood conditions.
These capabilities incorporate available information from sources such as:
This approach can provide additional geographic awareness of developing flood threats, including locations where detailed official warnings may be limited.
Predictive indicators represent modeled or inferred flood potential rather than confirmation that flooding has occurred.
- •NASA flood-related modeling products, including Flood Model of Models information.
- •Flash flood guidance and supporting meteorological information.
- •River gauges and hydrological measurements.
- •Other supported scientific flood indicators.
Observed Flood Conditions, Water Levels & Inundation
Flood warnings describe where flooding may occur. Observations and geographic flood products help characterize where water is present and how conditions evolve.
DisasterAWARE integrates available hydrological measurements, scientific flood observations, satellite-derived information, and geographic inundation products.
Available intelligence includes:
River Gauge & Water-Level Observations
Access supported water-level measurements and hydrological information from monitoring networks, including USGS river gauges.
Observed Flooding & Inundation
Incorporate available satellite-derived and other remotely sensed flood observations to help identify inundated areas.
Flood Extent Footprints
Access available geographic flood boundaries representing observed or modeled inundation.
Flood Depth Information
Use available measured or estimated flood-depth information to characterize the potential severity of flooding.
Flood Evolution
Follow available changes in water levels, inundation extent, and associated event information as additional observations become available.
Supporting Geographic Evidence
Connect flood records with relevant measurements, source information, and scientific products.
By bringing these sources together, DisasterAWARE helps technology partners move beyond warning polygons toward a more detailed understanding of actual or estimated flood conditions.
*Flood footprints may represent remote sensing observations, hydrological models, or other scientific estimates. Their availability and precision vary by event, geography, and source.*
Historical Flood Intelligence, Geographic Footprints & Severity
Understanding past flooding is essential to catastrophe research, property risk assessment, historical event validation, and long-term resilience planning.
DisasterAWARE's historical catastrophe database incorporates flood events and supporting geographic and hydrological information from available authoritative sources.
Historical flood intelligence includes:
For the United States, DisasterAWARE incorporates enhanced historical flood information from sources including USGS, NOAA/NWS, FEMA, and supported scientific datasets.
These records help technology partners evaluate past flood conditions and provide geographic evidence beyond simple event occurrence.
- •Event Locations & Timing: Geographic locations, event dates, and available duration information.
- •Historical Inundation: Available flood extent footprints and geographic evidence of past flooding.
- •Flood Depths: Available measured or estimated depth information.
- •Hydrological Observations: River gauge measurements, high-water marks, and supporting flood evidence.
- •Event Severity: Available flood intensity indicators and associated characteristics.
- •Reported Impacts: Available information about casualties, displacement, damage, and other consequences.
Featured Dataset: Historical Flood Data
Explore DisasterAWARE's enriched flood database, including available flood footprints, hydrological observations, event attributes, and supporting historical information.
Flood Exposure, Infrastructure Risk & Associated Impacts
Flooding can affect locations well beyond the immediate area of heavy rainfall.
Water levels, inundation extent, depth, infrastructure vulnerability, and geographic conditions all influence potential consequences.
DisasterAWARE connects flood intelligence with geographic exposure and available impact information to support broader risk assessment.
Property & Facility Exposure
Evaluate the relationship between available flood footprints and customer-supplied properties, facilities, warehouses, and other operational locations.
Critical Infrastructure
Incorporate geographic information about roads, bridges, hospitals, utilities, transportation networks, and other important infrastructure.
Population & Vulnerability
Combine flood intelligence with available population density, demographic, socioeconomic, and vulnerability indicators.
Reported Flood Impacts
Associate available information about fatalities, injuries, displacement, damaged structures, evacuations, and other consequences with relevant flood events.
Expanding Downstream Impact Intelligence
DisasterAWARE is expanding its associated impact repository to incorporate additional event-linked information, including insured losses, economic damages, utility outages, damaged buildings, transportation interruptions, and business disruptions.
These relationships support the longer-term development of a connected disaster intelligence foundation capable of informing more sophisticated risk analysis and decision support.
Why Disasteraware Is Different
More Than Flood Alerts. Intelligence About Where Water Actually Goes.
Global Authoritative Flood Warnings
Access flood-related alerts from supported national meteorological, hydrological, and disaster management agencies.
Proprietary Early-Warning Intelligence
Complement official alerts with supported scientific flood models, hydrological information, and early-warning indicators.
Observed & Estimated Inundation
Move beyond warning areas with available flood extent footprints, satellite observations, and modeled inundation products.
Water-Level & Depth Intelligence
Use available river gauge measurements, high-water marks, and flood-depth information to better characterize flood conditions.
Enriched Historical Flood Records
Connect current events with historical flood locations, timing, geographic footprints, severity, and available reported consequences.
Geographic Exposure & Impact Context
Identify potentially exposed properties, infrastructure, populations, and operational locations using supported geographic information.
Enterprise & AI-Native Delivery
Integrate supported flood intelligence through APIs, webhooks, historical datasets, geospatial services, and MCP-enabled access.
Featured Intelligence Workflow
From Flood Prediction to Inundation, Exposure & Impact.
DisasterAWARE connects warnings, scientific flood indicators, hydrological measurements, geographic inundation products, and available impacts to help technology partners understand flooding as it develops.
Anticipate — Identify Developing Flood Threats
Access authoritative flood warnings, heavy rainfall information, hydrological forecasts, and supported proprietary early-warning indicators.
Understand where flooding may develop and which areas warrant monitoring.
Observe — Understand Water Conditions & Inundation
Incorporate available river gauge measurements, satellite observations, flood extent footprints, and estimated depth information.
Distinguish observed conditions from modeled estimates.
Assess — Identify Potentially Exposed Locations
Connect available flood footprints and severity information with properties, facilities, infrastructure, transportation routes, and population data.
Identify locations that may warrant investigation or operational attention.
Connect — Understand Reported Consequences
Associate available reports of damage, displacement, infrastructure disruption, and other impacts with the flood event.
Use historical context and event-linked information to support risk assessment.
Featured Capability: From Flood Warning to Actual Geographic Exposure
A Flood Warning Is Not the Same as a Flood Footprint.
Consider a major rainfall event affecting a region containing insured properties, manufacturing facilities, and transportation infrastructure.
Before the Event — Flood Warning Intelligence
Authoritative flood warnings and supported early-warning indicators identify areas where flooding may develop.
During the Event — Hydrological Observations
River gauges and available environmental measurements provide evidence about changing water conditions.
As Flooding Develops — Inundation & Depth
Available satellite-derived observations and flood models help characterize the geographic extent and estimated severity of flooding.
Exposure Assessment — What May Be Affected?
Geographic analysis identifies properties, facilities, roads, and infrastructure potentially intersecting the flood footprint.
Reported Impacts — What Actually Happened?
Available reports of property damage, evacuations, transportation disruptions, and other consequences provide additional context.
The result: More meaningful intelligence about where flooding occurred or was estimated—not simply where a warning was issued.
Built On Authoritative Flood Sources & Applied Science
Hydrological Measurements. Scientific Models. Geographic Flood Evidence.
DisasterAWARE technology is rooted in decades of applied science and disaster management expertise developed through the Pacific Disaster Center.
Our flood intelligence combines authoritative warnings, scientific hydrological models, river measurements, remote sensing observations, and available historical flood information.
National Meteorological & Hydrological Agencies
Supported national agencies provide authoritative flood warnings, flash flood alerts, hydrological forecasts, and related meteorological information.
USGS — River Gauges & Hydrological Observations
USGS monitoring networks provide water-level measurements and other hydrological information that can help characterize flood conditions.
Available USGS historical information also includes high-water marks and supporting evidence from significant flood events.
NOAA & National Weather Service
NOAA and NWS products provide flood warnings, hydrological forecasts, inundation information, precipitation observations, and supporting weather intelligence.
NASA — Flood Modeling & Satellite Observations
NASA scientific products contribute flood-related modeling, remote sensing, and geographic information, including supported Flood Model of Models and satellite-derived observations.
FEMA — Flood & Disaster Information
Supported FEMA datasets provide additional flood-related geographic, historical, and disaster impact context.
Additional Scientific & Geospatial Sources
DisasterAWARE incorporates supported scientific flood products, environmental measurements, and geographic datasets to enrich flood event intelligence.
Geographic Exposure & Vulnerability Data
Population, infrastructure, vulnerability, and other geospatial layers help characterize potentially affected locations and surrounding conditions.
Nine Ways Disasteraware Supports Enterprise Workflows
Turn Flood Intelligence into More Valuable Customer Applications.
Insurance Claims Triage
Use available flood extent footprints, depth information, and historical flood evidence to help identify potentially affected insured properties and prioritize investigation.
Reinsurance & Catastrophe Analytics
Enrich catastrophe analysis with flood events, geographic inundation, hydrological observations, severity information, and available reported impacts.
Property Underwriting & Portfolio Risk
Evaluate historical flood activity and geographic hazard information near insured properties and portfolios.
Supply Chain & Logistics Technology
Monitor flood threats and available inundation information near suppliers, distribution facilities, transportation corridors, and logistics infrastructure.
Risk Intelligence & Corporate Security
Provide awareness of developing flood threats and observed conditions affecting corporate facilities and operational locations.
Business Continuity & Resilience
Support flood preparedness, incident monitoring, geographic exposure assessment, and post-event operational review.
Utilities & Critical Infrastructure
Identify flood threats and available inundation near power infrastructure, transportation networks, healthcare facilities, and other critical assets.
Geospatial & Mapping Platforms
Integrate flood warnings, hydrological observations, inundation footprints, depth information, and supporting geographic layers into customer-facing applications.
AI-Powered Risk & Decision Intelligence
Connect flood warnings, observations, geographic footprints, historical records, exposed assets, and available impacts to support automated analysis and future decision-support applications.
Related Products & Data Capabilities
Flood Intelligence Connected to a Broader Disaster Data Foundation.
DisasterAWARE connects flood warnings and predictive intelligence with observed conditions, historical catastrophe records, geographic exposure, and available impact information.
Explore Our Historical Flood Dataset
Access available historical flood events, inundation footprints, hydrological observations, severity information, and supporting catastrophe records.
Designed for insurance, catastrophe analytics, risk intelligence, and geospatial applications.
Related Data Capabilities
Warnings & Predictive Intelligence
Explore authoritative global flood warnings, proprietary early-warning indicators, scientific models, and hydrological information.
Observed Hazard Intelligence
Understand where flooding has been observed or estimated through river measurements, satellite observations, inundation footprints, and available depth information.
Exposure & Impact Intelligence
Connect flood footprints with potentially exposed properties, infrastructure, populations, and available reported consequences.
Historical Disaster Database
Access enriched historical catastrophe records, including flood events, geographic footprints, severity information, and available associated impacts.
Global Coverage & Sources
Explore DisasterAWARE's authoritative flood integrations, scientific sources, geographic coverage, and supporting data network.
Geospatial Data Layers
Access flood warnings, precipitation information, geographic exposure, vulnerability, infrastructure, and supporting environmental intelligence.
Related Hazard Intelligence
Severe Weather
Monitor heavy rainfall, severe thunderstorms, tropical moisture, and other meteorological conditions that may contribute to flooding.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Follow tropical cyclone activity and associated rainfall, coastal flooding, and storm-related threats.
Wildfires
Explore wildfire detections, fire perimeters, and associated geographic threats, including conditions that may influence post-fire flooding.
All Hazard Types
Discover DisasterAWARE's broader intelligence offering across natural disasters, severe weather, environmental hazards, and human-induced threats.
Flood Intelligence That Goes Beyond the Warning.
Flooding can develop rapidly, spread across complex geographic areas, and create consequences extending far beyond the initial rainfall or warning. DisasterAWARE brings together authoritative flood warnings, proprietary early-warning indicators, hydrological measurements, available inundation footprints, estimated flood depths, historical catastrophe records, and geographic exposure and impact intelligence. From anticipating developing threats to understanding actual water conditions and post-event consequences, our intelligence helps technology partners deliver more complete flood awareness to their customers.