A "100-year flood" means a 1% chance of that level of flooding happening each year. Houston saw three 500-year flood events within three years from 2015 to 2017, including Hurricane Harvey.

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Weather forecasts sometimes warn of storms that can unleash such unusual rainfall that they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that ...

Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash rains so unusual they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods. Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme ...

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Kakeya died in 1947 and Besicovitch died in 1970, so even the newest possible versions of these questions have been open and unproven for at least 55 years. But they really date back 100 years ...

When flooding is severe, you'll sometimes hear the phrase "100-year flood" used to describe the destruction. That can be a misleading term, say experts, because it doesn't mean that level of ...

Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash rains so unusual they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods. Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme ...