Our Coast, Our Future - Flood Map

Point Blue Conservation Science

Overview

This coastal planning decision-support tool helps users understand, visualize, and anticipate ecosystem and human community vulnerabilities to sea level rise, coastal storms, and shoreline change hazards. The tool is co-developed with the user community to deliver locally relevant, interactive maps, tools, and downloadable products from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Coastal Storm Modeling System in a user-friendly web-based platform. Products will eventually be available statewide and currently cover 95 percent of the urbanized coast of California: Northcentral California (Point Arena to Half Moon Bay), San Francisco Bay, and Southern California (Point Conception south to the Mexican border).

Our Coast, Our Future homepage

Features

View locally relevant online maps and tools to understand vulnerabilities to sea level rise, storms, and shoreline change
Compare a combination of 40 different sea level rise and storm scenarios from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Coastal Storm Modeling System
Interact with a map that includes flood extent, depth, duration, wave heights, velocity, uncertainties, cliff retreat, and shoreline change
Download data and learn how and where products have been used for coastal adaptation planning, science, and education and outreach