Tag: extreme-values

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• The Hundred-Year Flood Is an Estimate, and Its Uncertainty Is the Result

  11 Nov, 2026

  A "100-year flood" is a tail quantile estimated from about a century of annual peaks. A worked example on the Susquehanna shows why the interval around it, and the assumptions that move it, are the answer rather than the caveat.