Who funds flood research?

We count 180 funded flood projects, active between 2020 and 2032, from 8 funders. The most came from NSF · GEO (40 projects), EU · MSCA (27 projects) and EU · ERC (20 projects). The median award is $793K, across the 178 of 180 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

180

Funders

8

Median award

$793K

Open calls now

8

Top funders of flood research

Projects whose title or summary mentions flood. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open flood funding calls

8 open calls mention flood today.

• Fiscal Year 2024 Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current
  Department of Homeland Security - FEMANot specifiedDeadline: December 30, 2026 ·
• Advancing coastal flood protection through public-private partnerships, innovative insurance products, and improved sediment management.
  DOC NOAA - ERA Production$500,000 – $2,000,000Deadline: February 12, 2027 ·
• Fiscal Year 2026 Flood Mitigation Assistance
  Department of Homeland Security - FEMANot specifiedDeadline: February 26, 2027 ·
• Fiscal Year 2026 Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current
  Department of Homeland Security - FEMANot specifiedDeadline: January 31, 2028 ·
• Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Southern Appalachian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
  Geological Survey$1 – $330,000Deadline: October 30, 2026 ·
• F26AS00105 National Fish Passage Program
  Fish and Wildlife Service$1 – $1,000,000Deadline: April 30, 2027 ·
• EDA FY25 Disaster Supplemental
  Economic Development AdministrationUp to $50,000,000Deadline: Not listed
• NERC urgency funding
  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)Up to £100,000Deadline: Not listed
  Real odds: About 1 in 4 funded (23% · Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), all funding decisions, 2024-25)

Real odds

• About 1 in 4 funded · 23% · Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), all funding decisions, 2024-25 · UKRI investment and outputs data, table 2.1

Published success rates for the programs behind the open calls above: the share of applications the funder funded, program-wide, not for this topic.

Funded flood projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Hurricane Surge, Wave, and Debris-induced Forces in Non-stationary Urban Shorelines
  NSF · ENG · $586,625 · ends 2031
• Collaborative Research: GEER - Collecting and Archiving AI-ready Perishable Data for Geotechnical Engineering Natural Hazards Research
  NSF · ENG · $1,633,151 · ends 2031
• CONVERGE: Training for Participatory, Problem-Focused, Solutions-Based Natural Hazards Research to Reduce Disaster Risk
  NSF · ENG · $1,000,000 · ends 2031
• U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Project Office
  NSF · GEO · $1,250,000 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Understanding Soil Moisture Variability
  NSF · GEO · $1,182,557 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Characterizing drivers, patterns, and probability of prolonged coastal flood hazards across space and time
  NSF · GEO · $600,203 · ends 2031
• Southern Africa Consortium for Climate Change and Health
  Wellcome · £20,815,899 · ends 2031
• WET-RISK: Basin-wide assessment of amazon wetland forests sensitivity to extreme climatic events and its ecological consequences
  UKRI · NERC · £1,077,319 · ends 2031
• Rice is a major crop in the lower mississippi river basin, but traditional flooded production requires large volumes of water and can lead…
  USDA · $591,059 · ends 2030
• GENERATE 2: Translating, Displacing, and Mapping Intersectional Disaster Justice
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £601,402 · ends 2030

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “flood or flooding”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.