Hurricane Rita — Southeast Texas / Southwest Louisiana, September 2005

Total Insured Loss

$3.76B

Wind + Surge — 2,056,664 buildings modeled

🌪 Wind Loss

$3.61B

1,752,620 buildings affected · peak 111 mph

BM: $3.50B (+3.3%) — AIR/Munich Re: $5.6B total insured (TX+L

🌊 Surge Loss

$149.3M

3,800 buildings inundated · peak WSE 18.8 ft

BM: $500.0M (-70.1%) — insured fraction pending

Storm Summary

CategoryCat 3

Max wind100 kt

Min pressure937 mb

Peak model wind111 mph

Surge WSE peak18.8 ft

Peak depth at FFE16.6 ft

VE zone buildings701

VE open / enclosed120 / 581

View Mode

Wind

Surge

Combined

Legend

None (<1%)

Minor (1–10%)

Moderate (10–30%)

Severe (30–70%)

Destruction (>70%)

Layers

Storm Track Buildings

Pipeline Stages

S1 — Track

HURDAT2 AL092022 — 39 pts

S2 — Holland B Wind Field

2,056,664 FL buildings

S2s — Surge Field

Irish et al. parametric WSE · FM 18.8 ft ({peak_wse-14.1:+.1f} ft vs 14.1 ft obs)

S3 — HAZUS Wind Fragility

By construction class

S3s — HAZUS Surge Curves

VE open/enclosed + AE · enclosure_class from SI

S4 — Loss Aggregation

Wind $3.61B · Surge $149.3M

S5 — Viewer Deploy

PMTiles · Cloudflare Pages

Wind: Holland B parametric field. Surge: Irish et al. (2008) parametric WSE. Peak 1×Rmax right of track. HAZUS Ch. 7 depth-damage curves by enclosure class (Phase 6 SI). Combined = max(wind DR, surge DR).

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Hurricane Rita — Southeast Texas / Southwest Louisiana, September 2005 — Wind & Surge Damage