More than 3 million Americans are already climate migrants, researchers say - The Union Leader

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Flood water surrounds a home following Tropical Storm Imelda in Fannett, Texas, in 2019. The remnants of Imelda lashed Houston and coastal Texas, inundating homes, paralyzing travel, disrupting oil supplies, and threatening hospitals and refineries.

Over the past two decades, as San Antonio and surrounding Bexar County, Texas, grew by more than 600,000 people, some 17% of the city’s blocks experienced a decrease in population.

That delta is largely due to flood risk that climate change exacerbates, according to a new report by the First Street Foundation, a data nonprofit with the mission of communicating climate hazards.