Coastal Risk Consulting

Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC. (commonly referred to as Coastal Risk or CRC) is an American startup climate adaptation technology and consulting company with headquarters in Plantation, Florida. Coastal Risk provides individuals, businesses, and local governments with climate impact modeling technology, available as an online software-as-a-service (SaaS), that allows property owners to assess their vulnerability to flooding related to sea level rise and climate change impacts and assists in adaptation and resiliency decision-making.[1][2]

Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC.
Private
IndustrySoftware as a Service
Cloud computing
Climate modeling
Consulting
FoundedAugust 16, 2014 (2014-08-16)
Plantation, Florida, U.S.
FoundersAlbert Slap
Leonard Berry
HeadquartersPlantation, Florida, U.S.
ProductsSee Coastal Risk Consulting products
Websitecoastalriskconsulting.com

Coastal Risk uses data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Flood Insurance Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, high-resolution LIDAR, local tide gauges, and various other geographic information systems to create their cloud-based climate impact risk analyses.[3][4] However, Coastal Risk's risk scores differ from FEMA flood maps by including sea level rise projections into their flood risk calculations.[5]

FEMA flood maps simply fail to provide comprehensive flood risk assessments for your property:

  1. FEMA flood maps cannot identify an individual property's flooding risks from heavy rainfall. Coastal Risk's reports model heavy rainfall flood risks for every property in the US.
  2. FEMA flood maps do not include coastal tidal flooding risks to your home or business. Tidal flooding becomes a “threat multiplier” if a hurricane comes ashore at high tide. Coastal Risk's report shows a property's vulnerability to tidal flooding and to even more severe King Tides.
  3. FEMA flood maps underestimate the height of hurricane storm surge. The higher the surge, the greater the damage. Coastal Risk's reports incorporate more reliable NOAA models, providing realistic intelligence about water heights higher than FEMA's "Base Flood Elevations".
  4. FEMA flood maps treat all properties in a flood zone alike in terms of flood risk. In fact, different properties in the same FEMA flood zone can have vastly different flood risks. Coastal Risk's reports show accurate flood risks based on a specific property's elevation and location.
  5. FEMA flood maps do not visualize where on a property flooding will occur and how deep it will be. Coastal Risk's reports do.
  6. FEMA flood maps are "backward looking", basing their risk assessments on historical data. Coastal Risk's reports are "forward looking", taking into account rising sea levels and changing climate impacts for decades ahead.
  7. FEMA cannot help individuals or businesses make informed decisions to “buy, sell, protect or insure” a property. Coastal Risk's accurate and comprehensive flood risk modeling and risk communication services help match your property's specific flood risks with cost-efficient flood mitigation products and services.

The company has partnered with International Business Machines Corporation, Battelle, TetraTech, and Trexin.[6][7] The company's clients include scores of businesses and individuals in coastal as well as inland locations throughout the U.S., as well as local governments

Coastal Risk has received a number of awards, including two Stevies® at the 14th Annual American Business Awards for "Startup of the Year" and "Tech Startup of the Year," a finalist in the Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge 2015, and named "3rd Coolest Startup" by Broward Palm Beach New Times.[8][9][10]

History

Coastal Risk was founded in August 2014 by former environmental attorney and law professor Albert Slap and former Florida Atlantic University climate scientist and Director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies Leonard Berry.[11][12] Over the years, Slap used America's environmental laws to protect public health and the environment by fighting water and air pollution, toxic waste dumping, and by forcing local governments to replace aging and polluting sewer infrastructure. His citizen suits against the City of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Miami-Dade County brought billions of dollars of investment in wastewater treatment plants and tens of thousands of new construction jobs in those cities. Mr. Slap was senior counsel to Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper in the first lawsuit in the nation to force local government to make critical public infrastructure climate ready and storm safe. Co-founder Dr. Berry was a lead author on the United States 3rd National Climate Assessment in 2015. Other key members of the Coastal Risk scientific team include University of Miami professor and lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Brian Soden, and FAU geoscientist Keren Bolter.[13]

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References
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  2. "Rising Sea Levels Won't Doom U.S. Coastal Cities". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  3. "PhillyDeals: Helping home buyers before they go underwater". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  4. "How a Plantation tech firm is helping companies prepare for climate change - South Florida Business Journal". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  5. "Beyond FEMA Flood Maps: What to Tell Your Coastal Customers". www.iamagazine.com. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  6. "Is the Humble Flood Map Due For a Big Data Make-over?". 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  7. "Coastal Risk Consulting and InterNACHI Announce Strategic Marketing Partnership". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  8. "2016 Company of the Year Award Winners | Stevie Awards". stevieawards.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  9. "Winners of Business Plan Challenge think big, present strategy for success". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  10. Swanson, Jess (2016-03-30). "The Eight Coolest Technology Startups in Broward County". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  11. Bolstad,ClimateWire, Erika. "Seas Rising but Florida Keeps Building on the Coast". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  12. Friedman, Thomas L. (2016-05-18). "Donald, Save Your Golf Greens, and the Planet". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  13. Swanson, Jess (2016-01-18). "South Florida Company Uses Data to Predict Whether Your House Will Be Underwater in 30 Years". Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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