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Development of a building-scale integrated flood damage quantifying framework using a hydrodynamic model and multisource geospatial data

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Building damage is the primary component of economic damage resulting from flood disasters. Understanding flood damage enables effective disaster risk reduction strategies and community resilience planning. In this study, a comprehensive framework for quantifying flood-induced damage to individual building properties (structural and content) is developed. This methodology combines geospatial data with machine learning and hydrodynamic modeling, as demonstrated through the 2023 flood event in the Dongdian flood storage and detention area (FSDA), Hebei Province, China. The main findings are as follows: (1) building-type classification using random forest algorithms achieved 98.4% accuracy in distinguishing residential, commercial, and industrial structures; (2) two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations revealed maximum inundation depths predominantly ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 m, with structural damage ratios of 0.2–0.3 and interior property damage ratios of 0.9–1.0; (3) total direct economic damage to building properties in the Dongdian FSDA reached CNY 10.00–11.91 billion (approximately USD 1.42–1.69 billion), with industrial buildings accounting for 68.74% of damage, representing the dominant damage category. This framework delivers a precise flood damage assessment of building properties, transcends traditional survey limitations and offers a globally transferable approach for enhancing disaster resilience and reducing property risks in flood-vulnerable regions, subject to appropriate data availability and parameter adaptation. • A building-level framework is developed to quantify direct flood-induced damage by explicitly distinguishing structural and content losses. • The proposed approach integrates multisource geospatial data with machine learning to achieve refined functional classification of individual buildings. • Flood hazard characteristics at the individual-building scale are captured through a coupled 1D–2D hydrodynamic model to drive depth–damage simulations. • The framework enables rapid and fine-scale damage assessment in flood storage and detention areas, demonstrating strong applicability to data-scarce regions.

Source: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106068