Hurricane Sandy Damage Estimates by Block Group, 2012
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- A FEMA housing inspection for renters is used to assess personal property loss and for owners to assess damage to their home as well as personal property. This inspection is done to determine eligibility for FEMA Individual Assistance. For both rental and owner inspections, if the property has flood damage the inspector measures the height of the flooding. They indicate the highest floor of the flooding (for example, Basement, 1st floor, 2nd floor, etc…) and the height of the flooding in that room. In addition for the units without flooding, HUD has estimated minor/major/severe damage based on the damage inspection estimates for real property (owner) and personal property (renter). This file only presents data on block groups with 10 or more damaged housing units. The suppression to only including 10 or more damaged housing units results in an exclusion of about 6% of the total flooded units. These data reflect Hurricane Sandy damage in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. These data are incomplete, as each day there are additional registrants and inspections. This should be a viewed as a preliminary snapshot to assist with planning. Data Current as of: January 17, 2013
- Purpose
- This layer is intended for researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production. This layer will provide a basemap for layers related to socio-political analysis, statistical enumeration and analysis, or to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. More advanced user applications may focus on demographics, urban and rural land use planning, socio-economic analysis and related areas (including defining boundaries, managing assets and facilities, integrating attribute databases with geographic features, spatial analysis, and presentation output.)
Description
| Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
|---|---|
| Form | Shapefile |
| Extent | 1.112 |
| Place | Washington D.C., US |
| Publisher | United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Map data | Scale not given. ; W 76°3ʹ42ʺ--W 71°45ʹ46ʺ/N 42°5ʹ9ʺ--N 37°54ʹ43ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
|---|
Subjects
| Subject | Hurricane Sandy, 2012 |
|---|---|
| Subject | Hurricane damage |
| Subject | United States |
| Subject | 2012 |
| Subject | Boundaries |
| Subject | Geoscientific Information |
| Genre | Geospatial data |
| Genre | Cartographic dataset |
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- This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
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- This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2013). Hurricane Sandy Damage Estimates by Block Group, 2012. United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/jp095bg5089.
Collection
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Maps and GIS Data
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