The Flood Vulnerability Index (FVI) assesses the distribution of vulnerability to flooding across NYC in order to guide flood resilience policies and programs. Vulnerability contains three components: exposure to a hazard, susceptibility to harm from the exposure, and capacity to recover (Cutter et al., 2009). There are six hazard-specific FVIs, one for each of the six different flood hazard scenarios, which include current and two future storm surge scenarios and current and two future tidal flooding scenarios. Exposures vary for different types of flooding and different scenarios within each flood type. Each FVI consists of two component sub-indices: an exposure index and an index that reflects susceptibility to harm and capacity to recover. The exposure index is different in each FVI in order to capture the different exposures to each of the flood hazard scenarios. The sub-index that reflects susceptibility to harm and capacity to recover -- the Flood Susceptibility to Harm and Recovery Index (FSHRI) -- is the same for each FVI. It aggregates 12 socio-economic indicators correlated with various types of hardships that people may suffer due to flooding and different dimensions of ability to recover. For additional information, please visit <a href="https://climate.cityofnewyork.us/initiatives/vulnerability-impacts-and-adaptation-analysis/">this link</a>.
This dataset has the following 9 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the_geom | the_geom | multipolygon | Geometry column used for mapping. | view top 100 |
| GEOID | geoid | text | A unique identifier per geometric entity (Census Tract). | 36085020702 36005023000 36047085600 36085013301 36085029106 view top 100 |
| FSHRI | fshri | text | “Flood Susceptibility to Harm and Recovery Index”, a base index resulting from the aggregation of selected socioeconomic indicators that was then combined with event-specific exposure assessments to generate the 6 different FVIs. | 3 5 4 2 1 view top 100 |
| FVI_storm_surge_present | ss_cur | text | Flood vulnerability index (FVI) for a storm surge event under current conditions (based on FEMA’s preliminary Special Flood Hazard Area). | 5 1 2 3 4 view top 100 |
| FVI_storm_surge_2050s | ss_50s | text | Flood vulnerability index (FVI) for a storm surge event under sea level conditions estimated for the 2050s (based on the future floodplains developed by the New York Panel on Climate Change). | 3 5 1 2 4 view top 100 |
| FVI_storm_surge_2080s | ss_80s | text | Flood vulnerability index (FVI) for a storm surge event under sea level conditions estimated for the 2080s (based on the future floodplains developed by the New York Panel on Climate Change). | 3 5 1 2 4 view top 100 |
| FVI_tidal_2020s | tid_20s | text | Flood vulnerability index (FVI) for a tidal flooding event under sea level conditions estimated for the 2020s (based on the daily tidal floodplains developed by the New York Panel on Climate Change). | 2 4 5 1 3 view top 100 |
| FVI_tidal_2050s | tid_50s | text | Flood vulnerability index (FVI) for a tidal flooding event under sea level conditions estimated for the 2050s (based on the daily tidal floodplains developed by the New York Panel on Climate Change). | 3 5 1 2 4 view top 100 |
| FVI_tidal_2080s | tid_80s | text | Flood vulnerability index (FVI) for a tidal flooding event under sea level conditions estimated for the 2080s (based on the daily tidal floodplains developed by the New York Panel on Climate Change). | 2 4 5 1 3 view top 100 |