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Flood Damage Estimation Beyond Stage-Damage Functions - An Australian Example

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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There are a number of factors which influence the direct consequence of flooding. The most important are depth of inundation, velocity, duration of inundation and water quality. Though computer modelling techniques exist that can provide an estimate of these variables, this information is seldom used to estimate the impact of flooding on a community. This work describes the first step to improve this situation using data collected for the Swan River system in Perth, Western Australia. Here, it is shown that residential losses are underestimated when stage-damage functions or the velocity-stage-damage functions are used in isolation. This is because the functions are either limited to assessing partial damage or structural failure resulting from the movement of a house from its foundations. This demonstrates the need to use a combination of techniques to assess the direct economic impact of flooding.

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Title Flood Damage Estimation Beyond Stage-Damage Functions - An Australian Example
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1367eb74-1269-445b-b678-3ddd10fe90dc
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Flood Damage Estimation Beyond Stage-Damage Functions - An Australian Example". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/flood-damage-estimation-beyond-stage-damage-functions-an-australian-example