# Google Research — Protecting cities with AI-driven flash flood forecasting

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-12T13:03:15+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/protecting-cities-with-ai-driven-flash-flood-forecasting/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1359-protecting-cities-with-ai-driven-flash-flood-forecasting

Google Research announces the roll-out of Urban Flash Flood forecasts on Flood Hub, using a new AI-powered methodology that provides up to 24 hours advance notice for flash floods in urban areas. The system leverages a novel training method called Groundsource, which uses Gemini to extract ground truth from news reports, and relies on global weather products and forecasts.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/protecting-cities-with-ai-driven-flash-flood-forecasting/:

> today we’re announcing the roll-out of Urban Flash Flood forecasts on Flood Hub. By leveraging a new AI-powered methodology, we can now predict the risk of flash floods in urban areas up to 24 hours in advance.

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