Downtown Manhattan Storm Surge Map

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Downtown Manhattan Storm Surge Map

  • Residents in Zone A (orange) face the highest risk of flooding from a hurricane’s storm surge. Zone A includes all low-lying coastal areas and other areas that could experience storm surge in ANY hurricane that makes landfall close to New York City.
  • Residents in Zone B (Yellow) may experience storm surge flooding from a MODERATE (Category 2 or higher) hurricane.
  • Residents in Zone C (Green) may experience storm surge flooding from a MAJOR hurricane (Category 3 & 4) making landfall just south of New York City. A major hurricane is unlikely in New York City, but not impossible.

Enter your NYC address to find your zone
PDF Map of entire city.

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7 Responses to “Downtown Manhattan Storm Surge Map”

  1. Flickr: Vidiot, on August 24th, 2011 at 10:59 pm Said:

    where’d you get this from? Would love to see the data for western Queens.

  2. Flickr: lucky_dog, on August 24th, 2011 at 11:31 pm Said:

    that looks like a nyc OEM hurricane map. found it. click on "map" in your desired language.
    https://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/ready/hurricane_guide.shtml

  3. Flickr: GammaBlog, on August 25th, 2011 at 1:06 am Said:

    I have the links in my blog post. Didn’t get around to posting them here.

  4. Flickr: Vidiot, on August 25th, 2011 at 3:31 am Said:

    Thanks.

  5. GammaBlog - NYC Street Art, Architecture from the East Village, on August 26th, 2011 at 11:02 pm Said:

    [...] Con Ed facility on 14th Street has adequate means to thwart the storm surge,  but  it is in the evacuation zone, and you wonder.  Salty, conductive sea water does not play nicely with electrical circuits. Co Ed [...]

  6. Flickr: lucky_dog, on August 27th, 2011 at 7:35 am Said:

    btw, the nyc oem hurricane map is based on NOAA hurricane storm surge data mapped onto NYS and NYC geography. a more technical map is located at

    https://www.oasisnyc.org/map.aspx

    make sure the "Coastal Storm Impact Zones" data set is active (on the right hand map legend).

  7. Flickr: GammaBlog, on August 27th, 2011 at 12:49 pm Said:

    Nifty map.

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