Predictability of state-level flood damage in the conterminous United States: the role of hazard, exposure and vulnerability.

Concurrently, the areas of urban and crop lands have increased considerably in several states since 1955, with California, Texas and Florida ranked as the top three experiencing largest urbanland growth, while Texas, Kansas and North Dakota ranked as the top three states in cropland. Empirical relations between hazard and flood damage Overall, flood damage has exerted an increasing trend during the study period, and the change pattern of which resembles well those of extreme weather events, exposure and vulnerability variables as shown in Fig. 3 .

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