Flood Risk Management
Flood risk management — flood plain mapping, vulnerable area registry, real-time monitoring, flood event documentation, basement flooding prevention, insurance coordination, climate adaptation, and capital planning.
Flood Plains
Monitoring
Alert Delivery
Climate Adaptation
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
8Delegated to
6Stormwater asset inventory, pipe/channel capacity
Spatial analysis, flood plain mapping, terrain modeling
Water level sensors, rain gauges, data collection
Alert distribution, public notification, emergency contacts
Public-facing flood information portal
ML flood prediction models, IDF curve fitting
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
3 capability groups comprising 7 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Regulatory, engineered, and approximate flood plain mapping with development restrictions, Conservation Authority coordination, and public access.
Flood Plain Types
Regulatory flood plain (100-year/regional storm), engineered flood plain (detailed H&H modeling), approximate flood plain (interpolated).
Development Restrictions
Development restrictions within flood plain: no habitable space, floodproofing requirements, site alteration permits.
CA Coordination
Conservation Authority integration — Section 28 permits, regulation areas, flood plain mapping updates.
Public Access
Flood plain information available through public portal — property-level flood risk inquiry.
Risk registry of flood-vulnerable areas — historical flood data, infrastructure capacity constraints, terrain analysis, and community vulnerability scoring.
Risk Registry
Flood-vulnerable areas catalogued: low-lying areas, undersized infrastructure, combined sewer areas, basement flooding clusters.
Historical Analysis
Historical flood event data correlated with infrastructure capacity — identify repeat flooding locations.
Vulnerability Scoring
Community vulnerability scoring: population density, critical facilities, socioeconomic factors, emergency access.
Priority Ranking
Risk-based priority ranking for capital investment — vulnerability score × probability × consequence.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
4 entities with 4 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
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API Surface
Integration Endpoints
8 RESTful endpoints across 7 resource groups — plus 5 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/flood-risk/floodplains
Flood plain boundaries and restrictions
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
2 Civic products consume Flood Risk Management — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Alert Delivery
Flood Forecast Update
Monitoring Data Latency
Subsidy Application Processing
System Availability
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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