Todd Bridges, University of Georgia The approach ... Rivers above flood stage for up to 195 days. The Corps worked with a St. Louis levee district to build a 500-year levee—an awkward term ...

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Weather forecasts sometimes warn of storms that can unleash rains so unusual that they are described as 100-year or even ...

A "100-year flood" means a 1% chance of that level of flooding happening each year. Houston saw three 500-year flood events within three years from 2015 to 2017, including Hurricane Harvey.

Bush declared 39 counties in central Indiana a federal disaster area. At the time it was considered the second 500-year flood within a 15-year window, leading some people to ask how such a thing ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, one statistic scientists use is the percentage chance that a flood of a specific magnitude will happen. A 500-year flood means such an event has a 1 in 500 ...

It's based on probability, not predictability, say experts. Can a '500-year flood' happen twice in one lifetime? Yes, actually In June 2008, several Midwest states were hit with devastating floods.

Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash such unusual rain they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods. Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme ...