JBA Risk Management, a specialist firm specializing in flood hazard modeling and climate risk analysis, has launched a new set of global flood maps that incorporate climate change projections.
These tools are designed to help insurers, investors, businesses and other stakeholders assess how actual flood risk changes over time.
According to JBA Risk Management, the new map expands its existing climate risk products, allowing users to visualize potential changes in flood risk under different future climate scenarios. These data sets are designed to support decisions related to investment strategies, asset valuations and regulatory reporting requirements.
JBA Risk Management notes that the product supports both individual site-level analysis and broader portfolio assessments. Users can examine spatial variation in flood risk, identify locations with higher risk, and compare results from multiple climate pathways.
The company explains that the modeling approach builds on its established global flood mapping framework and adds climate model-derived change factors. Rather than making uniform adjustments to current flood conditions, this approach modifies flood behavior based on predicted climate signals, allowing scenario-based analysis of future risk trends.
JBA Risk Management added that the new climate change flood maps are designed to work with a wider range of climate-related products, including datasets that provide flood depth estimates, risk scores and pricing-related information, as well as global flood models tuned for climate conditions.
These tools are available as standalone products or as part of an integrated offering, allowing users to customize the level of insight required. Coverage includes river, surface water and coastal flooding hazards worldwide.
Judith Ellison, head of business development at JBA Risk Management, said: “Our Climate Change Flood Map provides a visual representation of the future flood risk science that underpins our data and models. For many organizations, understanding how risk patterns vary spatially is critical to understanding the practical implications of climate scenarios for assets, portfolios and long-term decision-making.
“By adding map-based views of rivers, surface water and coastal flooding, we are giving customers another way to interrogate future flood risks and connect detailed analysis to strategic planning.”
