First Street Foundation's 7th National Risk Assessment: Worsening Winds

The First Street Foundation Hurricane Wind Model (FSF-WM) combines open data, open science, and engineering expertise to create a new hurricane wind model that assesses hyper-local climate wind risk across the Nation, and can inform actions to address that risk. The FSF-WM uses high resolution land surface information, computer modeled hurricane tracks and property data for the contiguous United States to create wind hazard information for multiple return periods, a detailed evaluation of probable wind speeds and archetype-specific expected damages developed with the global engineering firm Arup, and a comparison of hurricane wind risk between the current year and 30 years in the future.