What is Salisbury’s Risk of Flood Damage?

1/11/2022 (Permalink)

This will be the most important map you see for the next three hours.

Floods can be some of the most sudden, destructive natural disasters, especially since they’re not as much a regional occurrence as hurricanes or tornadoes. Anywhere there is water, whether it’s a river, lake, or creek, a flood can happen.

But you may not need to get all worked up and afraid–you may not even be at risk! Salisbury has only a few areas that are susceptible to flood damage, and has only a mild risk in the rest of the town. If you’d like to see what the risk is where you live, follow this link: Salisbury Flood Map. You can put in your address and select the layers you want to see to find out what floodplain you’re in, where the flooding goes, and how deep the flooding has been within the past year, hundred years, and five hundred years.