8 Although many states have considered climate forecasts in their hazard plans in the past, the FDEM team knows how tightly mitigation aligns with climate resilience. “We’ve done the research to understand impacts, but I think we can improve on visualizing what future conditions will look like here in Florida,” Lentz said. Rydl is looking into risk forecast models to understand what’s coming. Meanwhile, Lentz and her staff are on their way to becoming GIS experts. “I think the GIS team has become a little more mitigation-y, and I think mitigation got a little more GIS-y,” Rydl said. For 2023, the FDEM team was confident it had built a product that’s more useful to the counties and municipalities that design mitigation projects. “We created a tool that allows local jurisdictions to ask where dollars will best be spent,” Lentz said. “They can look at how successful projects are, but also at where they haven’t yet implemented mitigation.” Florida flood risk map from 2018 shows most of the state in a 100-year flood zone. The flood risk map in the 2023 report corrects mapping errors made previously, and shows FEMA special flood hazard areas.
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