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The Risk Explorer consists of localized risk assessment and visualization tools.

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The “Risk Map” tool allows users to interactively view areas of higher risk.

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Selecting Logan County reveals it has 

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the fourth highest cumulative risk ranking in the state.

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The corresponding risk panel list the top 20% high risk indicators.

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Selecting a stream scale in Island Creek allows for another scale of analysis.

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Selecting a View Report button generates

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a web report with more detailed statistics that can be shared with others.

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This report reveals Island Creek at 632 buildings in a regulatory

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floodway, the highest of any other river stream in the state.

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Flood visualizations are useful for communicating risk

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about specific flood factors impacting a community.

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In this visualization, coal communities line the base of the steep,

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 narrow valley of Island Creek for most of its 18 mile length,

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in which development is restricted to the bottomlands.

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This animated movie along Island Creek, shows a flood inundation

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for a major 1% annual chance or 100 year storm.

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These compact, low lying communities are at higher risk 

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for substantial property damage and loss of life.

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This visualization shows a trailer park located in the floodway of Island Creek.

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The lightweight construction of the trailers

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makes these structures more vulnerable to flood damage or being swept away.

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Building profile visualizations show flood depth for major

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100 and 500-year floods, as depicted on FEMA's flood maps.

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Even elevated structures may be vulnerable to major flood events

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so at risk residents should be ready to evacuate early.

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Other tools are statewide dashboards that allow users to analyze 

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risk factors and mitigation measures.

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Dashboards allow users to generate conditional queries,

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such as identifying all schools in the floodway in Logan County.

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These are some examples of how the West Virginia Risk Explorer 

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can be beneficial, and hazard planning make communities more resilient to riverine flooding.