Dam Failure

Below a dam, a failure is a sudden, severe flood with little warning - lethal in the immediate path, but for most of the affected area the realized outcome is major flooding, damage, and displacement rather than death - a serious, recoverable disruption on par with a bad flood, which lands it mid-high rather than at the catastrophic top.

Rare and entirely geography-specific, so the Likelihood is low and concentrated below large dams.

This number is yours. It measures how hard Dam Failure would actually hit your household given what you already have in place. Rate it in Threat Planning — then all three multiply into your personal threat rating.