{"id":203245,"date":"2025-01-07T06:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-we-classify-flood-risk-may-give-developers-and-home-buyers-a-false-sense-of-security"},"modified":"2025-01-07T06:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:16:22","slug":"how-we-classify-flood-risk-may-give-developers-and-home-buyers-a-false-sense-of-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-we-classify-flood-risk-may-give-developers-and-home-buyers-a-false-sense-of-security","title":{"rendered":"How we classify flood risk may give developers and home buyers a false sense of security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-we-classify-flood-risk-may-give-developers-and-home-buyers-a-false-sense-of-security3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Common methods of communicating flood risk may create a false sense of security, leading to increased development in areas threatened by flooding.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon, called the \u201csafe development paradox,\u201d is described in a new paper from North Carolina State University. Lead author Georgina Sanchez, a research scholar in NC State\u2019s Center for Geospatial Analytics, said this may be an unintended byproduct of how the Federal Emergency Management Agency classifies areas based on their probability of dangerous flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0311718\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal PLOS ONE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common methods of communicating flood risk may create a false sense of security, leading to increased development in areas threatened by flooding. This phenomenon, called the \u201csafe development paradox,\u201d is described in a new paper from North Carolina State University. Lead author Georgina Sanchez, a research scholar in NC State\u2019s Center for Geospatial Analytics, said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}