Flood road in College Station, TX following Harvey Hurricane in 2017.
Over time, nuisance flooding can cost more than extreme, infrequent events.
“Catastrophic storms get a lot of media attention and are studied, but we wanted to know more about the non-extreme events,” said Amir AghaKouchak, UCI associate professor of civil & environmental engineering and co-author of a new study on cumulative hazards in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth’s Future.