22 April 2026
Flood specialist JBA Risk Management has launched a new range of global climate change flood maps, complementing its existing suite of climate change tools. The new maps enable (re)insurers, investors and corporates to easily visualise potential changes in climate-related physical flood risk and make informed investment decisions, asset valuations and better meet regulatory compliance demands.
JBA’s new climate change flood maps support bespoke location‑specific assessments as well as portfolio‑level analysis. They can be used for easy exploration of climate-related physical risk, identification of spatial patterns and hotspots, and the comparison of impacts across different climate scenarios.
The maps combine JBA’s world-leading flood science with the latest climate projections. They are built on the same foundations as its respected global flood maps, creating new datasets for future climate scenarios by applying global climate model-derived change factors, rather than uniform adjustments to present-day flood conditions. This approach alters flood risk in line with projected climate signals, enabling structured exploration of how it may evolve under different warming pathways.
The new maps have been designed to complement JBA’s existing suite of climate-related flood risk products, including its global climate change flood data providing flood scores, pricing data, and flood depths and its global climate change flood models.
Accessible individually or together, enabling clients to select the level of insight that best meets their needs, JBA’s climate change tool kit provides global coverage, property-level, location level and portfolio level insight – across river, surface water and coastal flood.
Judith Ellison, Head of Business Development, JBA Risk Management, commented:
“Our climate change flood maps provide a visual representation of the same future flood risk science that underpins our data and models. For many organisations, seeing how risk patterns change spatially is critical to understanding what climate scenarios actually mean for assets, portfolios and long‑term decisions.
“By adding a map‑based view across river, surface water and coastal flooding, we are giving clients another way to interrogate future flood risk and connect detailed analysis to strategic planning.”