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Flood Extent in North Carolina, Hurricane Helene

NC DHHS Flood Extent - Hurricane Helene
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps how far floodwaters spread in North Carolina during Hurricane Helene, with much of it exceeding the 100-year flood level.

How it's made. Produced by North Carolina's health department using Sentinel satellite, NOAA, and USGS data.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders see which communities were flooded beyond expected extreme-flood limits.

What's measured

landslidesflood

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-09-29 → 2024-09-29
  • Spatial extent-83.601, 35.118, -80.979, 36.58
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Follow rainfall, floods and surface-water extent
  • Track soil moisture and the onset of drought
  • Monitor lakes, rivers and groundwater storage
Official description

Flood extents as determined from Sentinel, NOAA, and USGS datasets and produced by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS). The majority of this raster has flood levels that exceed 100 year FEMA flood extent recurrence levels.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("landslides-nc-flood")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).