New York State Building Footprints with Flood Analysis

CIESIN, with support from New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), undertook a project to fill in critical data gaps and inform adaptation strategies for climate-exacerbated flooding. The New York State Building Footprints with Flood Analysis project provides a flood assessment model with integrated coastal and riverine flood projections, storm and sea level rise scenarios, building footprints, critical infrastructure, and damage assessments. This tool covers all counties in New York State, excluding New York City. County-specific data is being published on an ongoing basis.

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We provide a new comprehensive collection of building footprints, developed by CIESIN for the purposes of modeling floodwater impact on communities. This building footprint data set combines data collected from local governments and the Microsoft USBuildingsFootprints database, manually digitized from New York State Orthoimagery, and extracted from LiDAR data. Critical infrastructure data was acquired from from a variety of sources ranging from the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) to the New York State GIS Program Office via the Clearinghouse. Flood grids were developed by transforming FEMA 100- and 500- year floodplains into depth rasters. Damage assessments were conducted for both FEMA 100 and 500 year floods, as well as 90 distinct coastal flooding scenarios developed by the Steven's Institute of Technology's (SIT) "dynamic" water flow model. Damages were calculated using a variation of FEMA Hazus-MH flood loss estimation methodology adapted for this project. Building footprints, damage assessments, and flood grids zip files are available for use in public planning or a user's own analysis, and can be found in the table below. Users are free to use the data for research, government, or commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. Sale of the data or charging for access to the data is expressly prohibited.

'New York State Building Footprints with Flood Analysis' Collection, by County

(Please Note: zip files may be quite large)

County Building Footprints 100 yr flood 500 yr flood Damage Assessment
Albany Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Allegany Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Broome Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Cattaraugus Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip -
Cayuga Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Chautauqua Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Chemung Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Chenango Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Columbia Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Cortland Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Delaware Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Dutchess Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Erie Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Greene Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Herkimer Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip -
Jefferson Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Livingston Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Madison Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Monroe Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Montgomery Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Nassau Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Niagara Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Oneida Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Onondaga Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Ontario Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Orange Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Oswego Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Otsego Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip -
Putnam Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Rensselaer Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Rockland Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Saratoga Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Schenectady Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Schoharie Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Steuben Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Suffolk Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Sullivan Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Tompkins Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Ulster Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
Westchester Footprint zip 100 yr flood zip 500 yr flood zip Damage Assessment zip
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Essex Footprint zip - - -
Franklin Footprint zip - - -
Fulton Footprint zip - - -
Genesee Footprint zip - - -
Hamilton Footprint zip - - -
Lewis Footprint zip - - -
Orleans Footprint zip - - -
Schuyler Footprint zip - - -
Seneca Footprint zip - - -
St Lawrence Footprint zip - - -
Tioga Footprint zip - - -
Warren Footprint zip - - -
Washington Footprint zip - - -
Wayne Footprint zip - - -
Wyoming Footprint zip - - -
Yates Footprint zip - - -