Connecticut Launches New Tool For Climate Risk Mapping

Do you wonder how your property would hold up during a hurricane, flooding, or a raging wildfire? Wonder no more. The State of Connecticut has just become the first in the nation to make an online climate risk mapping tool available to residents.

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Governor Ned Lamont has announced that a free climate risk mapping tool for Connecticut residents and business owners is available for us to check our property's exposure to the climate-related risks of flooding, wildfires, hurricane-force winds, extreme heat, and air quality. This has been released to the public in hopes that it will be utilized by residents and business owners to better understand their insurance needs. The tool can be accessed through ct.gov.

I just used Connecticut's spiffy new Free Climate Risk Mapping Tool to look up the risks for my home address in Torrington, and my former home in Waterbury. The results surprised me, as threats are rated on a 10 point scale, I live along the Naugatuck River, so it was no shock that flooding came up as my biggest threat. Where I currently live has a 6/10 Flood Factor, a 3/10 Fire Factor, a 5/10 Wind Factor, a 2/10 Air Factor, and a 4/10 Heat Factor. In conclusion, my property is at risk of $721,000 in damage costs from flooding over the next 30 years, and there are 27 pollution facilities tracked by the EPA within 30 miles.

My former residence in Waterbury's Town Plot neighborhood had lower risk factors in Flood, Fire, and Air, but higher risks in Wind and Heat.