Flood Risk Mapping.

Sanborn’s flood mapping capabilities provide critical insights for risk assessment, emergency planning, and infrastructure resilience. Our high-resolution aerial imagery, LiDAR, and advanced hydrological modeling solutions deliver precise floodplain delineations, inundation mapping, and predictive analysis to help communities, government agencies, and insurers mitigate flood risks.

Gloucester MA on MapGeo showing FEMA Flood Zones

The imagery and LiDAR data captured by Sanborn supports flood studies, climate resilience planning, and near real-time disaster response, ensuring decision-makers have accurate, actionable data to protect lives and property.

Rock dam on the Red River

Sanborn Supports the Red River Water Management Board With Mapping Technology for Water Resource and Flood Control Needs

USGS 3D Hydrography

USGS funding to Update 3D Hydrography (3DHP) and 3D Elevation Data (3DEP): How to Apply

Gloucester MA MapGeo showing Flooding Inundation Depth

Flood Model Assessment and Hurricane Inundation Map Display

  • Flood Risk Assessment — FEMA is hard on this. They’ve changed the risk map program, and there’s some pretty significant changes coming for both assessment of insurance rates for where the 50 and the 100-year floodplains land. This data is going to be right at the very center of that.
  • Chris Ogier
    CP, VP Federal Business Development & Government Affairs