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The Risk Explorer consists of localized risk assessment and visualization tools. The Risk Map tool allows users to interactively view areas of higher risk. Selecting Logan County reveals it has the fourth highest cumulative risk ranking in the state. The corresponding risk panel list the top 20% high risk indicators. Selecting a stream scale in Island Creek allows for another scale of analysis.

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Selecting a View Report button generates a web report with more detailed statistics that can be shared with others. This report reveals Island Creek at 632 buildings in a regulatory floodway, the highest of any other river stream in the state. Flood visualizations are useful for communicating risk about specific flood factors impacting a community. In this visualization, core communities line the base of the steep, narrow valley of Island Creek for most of its 18 mile length, in which development is restricted to the bottom lands.

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This animated movie, Long Island Creek, shows a flood invitation for a major 1% annual chance or 100 year storm. These compact, low lying communities are at high risk for substantial property damage and loss of life. This visualization shows a trailer park located in the floodway of Island Creek. The lightweight construction of the trailers makes these structures more vulnerable to flood damage or being swept away.

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Building profile visualizations show flood deaths for major 105 hundred year floods, as depicted on FEMA's flood maps. Even elevated structures may be vulnerable to major flood events, so at risk residents should be ready to evacuate early. Other tools are statewide dashboards that allow users to analyze risk factors and mitigation measures. Dashboards allow users to generate conditional queries, such as identifying all schools in the floodway in Logan County.

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Speaker 1
These are some examples of how the West Virginia Risk Explorer can be beneficial, and has are planning to make communities more resilient to riverine flooding.