HighTide is proud to announce that the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council’s (ECFRPC), in collaboration with HighTide, has been awarded the 2024 Aliceann Wohlbruck NADO Impact Award in two categories: Emergency Preparedness & Recovery and Environment & Sustainability on September 16th, 2024.

The East Central Florida Regional Resilience Collaborative (R2C) and HighTide developed an innovative approach to flood risk assessment by combining risk, social vulnerability, and climate data with real-time insurance information. This new approach connects regional-scale risk assessments to localized economic impacts, focusing on total flood risk to buildings, local government tax bases, and uninsured flood risk.

The project identifies parcel-specific flood risks and applies a people-first approach to economic impacts. The new approach has empowered local governments and property owners to better understand and mitigate flood risks. This new approach received the 2024 Aliceann Wohlbruck NADO Impact Award in the category Emergency Preparedness and Recovery.

“At HighTide Intelligence, we believe that technology should be data and impact driven. ECFRPC winning these awards is a testament to how our partnership with them has translated complex data and modeling into actionable insights; helping local governments and property owners save on flood insurance costs and build stronger, more resilient communities,”

Noah Dewar, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder at HighTide Intelligence

The comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment, which earned ECFRPC an award in the Environment and Sustainability category, was performed for all eight counties in east central Florida. This project developed a detailed risk map accounting for both physical and social vulnerabilities. By providing actionable insights, this tool enables targeted, data-driven decision-making to bolster community resilience. The results were shared with the decision-makers at all levels, including county commissioners, and since the end of the project these assessments are being expanded to communities in other parts of Florida.

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NOTES TO THE EDITORS

The East Central Florida Regional Planning Council (ECFRPC) is a non-profit organization that serves Brevard, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia counties in Florida. ECFRPC is on a mission to address regional issues through communication and collaboration to develop strategies for a healthy, sustainable, thriving, and resilient region.

The East Central Florida Regional Resilience Collaborative (R2C) is an intergovernmental collaborative established to enhance regional resilience in East Central Florida. It is on a mission to empower communities to advance resilience strategies that strengthen and protect built infrastructure and the natural environment, enhance health and equity, and ensure a thriving economy.

HighTide Intelligence is a flood risk data company on a mission to accelerate sea level rise adaptation and flood mitigation with data-driven technology. Click here to meet the team.

For information or questions, please contact:

Adrian F. Santiago Tate

info@hightide.ai