Overview
U.S. Pipe Freeze Risk by Zip Code
Monarch's U.S. Pipe Freeze Model considers compounding daily freeze risk, climatological temperatures, pipe freeze thresholds based on peer-reviewed research, and air and soil temperatures at depth. Each forecast day is valid for a Zulu day (00UTC to 23UTC) and is updated at 08UTC each day. This package includes feature services for each forecast day as well as a breakdown of pipe freeze risk by zip code area across the entire United States.
Categories include:
- Low risk for pipe freeze: main concern for exposed pipes, empty homes, pipes in attics, older homes
- Moderate risk for pipe freeze: take precaution to prevent pipe freeze even with insulated pipes and especially older homes and well houses
- High risk for pipe freeze: insulated and buried pipes could be at risk of freezing, newer homes are at risk
This model can be used with a modeled solution to initiate alerts to plumbing companies, homeowners, investors, etc. that a damaging pipe freeze event may be coming. It can also be used as a loss-prevention forecast tool as a part of winter weather prevention plan on statewide, local or individual household level.
The Pipe Freeze Model data can be optimized to meet your needs.
Historic Texas Pipe Freeze Event February 2021
Also known as the Valentine Week Winter Weather Outbreak
In February of 2021, an historic cold outbreak caused temperatures to plunge as much as 50 degrees below average across much of Texas. The bitter cold didn't just result in significant power outages, but also widespread water system failure due to pipes freezing.
- Water service was disrupted for more than 12 million people across the state of Texas due to pipes freezing and bursting.
- More than 200,000 people in Texas lived in areas where water systems were completely non-operational in some cases, for days.
- Austin, specifically, lost more than 325 million U.S. gallons of water due to burst pipes.
The result of the water crisis also caused many fire hydrants to be unusable in emergency situations. Additionally, throughout the state pipes bursting due to freezing caused such severe damage to plumbing that structures were damaged by water and streets were flooded.
What is a Zulu Day?
Zulu time, also known as UTC, Universal Co-ordinated Time, is the same time all around the world. There are neither time zones nor daylight saving time. Zulu time (UTC) is based on GMT, Greenwich Mean Time. Knowing this if you live in New York and it is 10pm EST Saturday night to convert the time to UTC you would get 3am Sunday morning as time and date.
Business needs
- Risk Management
- Facility Management
- Operational Efficiency
Industries
- Insurance
- Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
- Health and Human Services
- Real Estate
- Water
Platform
- Desktop
- On-premises
- Mobile
- Web
System Requirements
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Version
1.0
Listed Date
Nov 18, 2022
Contact Information
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