Technical Reports

The Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas is dedicated to sharing our research and our partners’ research with Texas communities. Our Technical Report Series contains our most critical and impactful work on disaster risk reduction and provides vital data and analysis to decision makers working to build a more resilient Texas.
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Using 311-Call Data to Measure Flood Risk and Impacts: the case of Harris County TX during Hurricane Harvey

Prepared by: Jayton L. Rainey, Kirana Pandian, Laura Sterns, Kayode Atoba, William Mobley, Wesley Highfield, Russell Blessing, Samuel D. Brody

Uncertainty in Flood Mitigation Practices: Assessing the Economic Benefits of Property Acquisition and Elevation in Flood-Prone Communities

Publication Date: April 28, 2020

Prepared by: William Mobley, Kayode O. Atoba, Wesley E. Highfield

Prepared for: Sustainability

Quantification of continuous flood hazard using random forest classification and flood insurance claims at large spatial scales: a pilot study in southeast Texas

Publication Date: March 1, 2021

Prepared by: William Mobley, Antonia Sebastian, Russell Blessing, Wesley E. Highfield, Laura Stearns, Samuel D. Brody

Prepared for: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Evaluation of flood risk reduction strategies through combinations of interventions

Publication Date: November 1, 2018

Prepared by: Erik C. van Berchum, William Mobley, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Jos S. Timmermans, Jan H. Kwakkel, Samuel D. Brody

Prepared for: Journal of Flood Risk Management

Estimating Flood Extent during Hurricane Harvey using Maximum Entropy to build a Hazard Distribution Model

Publication Date: May 1, 2019

Prepared by: William Mobley, Antonia Sebastian, Wesley Highfield, Samuel D. Brody

Prepared for: Journal of Flood Risk Management

Economic impacts of storm surge events: examining state and national ripple effects

Publication Date: May 8, 2021

Prepared by: Meri Davlasheridze, Qin Fan, Wesley Highfield, and Jiaochen Liang

Prepared for: Climactic Change

Assessment of the growing threat of urban flooding: a case study of a national survey

Publication Date: March 4, 2021

Prepared by: Jayton L. Rainey, Samuel D. Brody, Gerald E. Galloway & Wesley E. Highfield

Prepared for: Urban Water Journal

Quantification of Continuous Flood Hazard using Random Forrest Classification and Flood Insurance Claims at Large Spatial Scales: A Pilot Study in Southeast Texas

Publication Date: October 28, 2020

Prepared by: William Mobley, Antonia Sebastian, Russell Blessing, Wesley E. Highfield, Laura Stearns, and Samuel D. Brody

Prepared for: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences