Results of the hydraulic simulations show the difference in flood impact when comparing the actual, dam-breaching flood (right) with the hypothetical scenario of no dams upstream of the city (left).

(Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images) In addition ... major metros have higher income burdens. When it came to fire risk and flood risk, Los Angeles faced the highest income burden.

Flood is dean of the school of architecture and professor at Woodbury University in nearby Burbank. For her, the Eaton Fire is an emotional, personal tragedy and an architectural problem urgently in ...