Flood Prone Soils for Wake County with FEMA Reference

A geospatial dataset identifying flood-prone soils in Wake County, sourced from the local government. The data is available in multiple formats, including CSV and GeoJSON, and references additional FEMA flood information. It was last updated on March 22, 2026.

Use Cases

• Model flood risk for property development based on soil characteristics.
• Create flood hazard maps for emergency planning based on geospatial soil data.
• Cross-reference local soil data with FEMA flood zone information for validation.

Strengths

• Available in multiple interoperable formats, including CSV, GeoJSON, and KML.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-03-22 02:56:36.628767).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Wake County

Collection Method

Likely derived from local soil surveys and flood risk assessments.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 02:56:36.628767; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wake County, United States