With thousands of miles of tidal coastline, and the combined threats of storm surge and sea level rise, Maine’s coastal communities have a critical need to understand how weather and sea level contribute to flooding, erosion, and damage to their shores and coastal infrastructure. Help your community gather important flood impact data to inform resilience decisions.

1. Read through the Prep & Collect tab on this site to familiarize yourself with the data collection protocol. We recommend printing and bringing along a data collection sheet in case you have no service or wifi in the field.
2. Head to a coastal flood monitoring site (or anywhere along the coast) with a camera/smart phone and a friend – safety first!
3. Take photos of the high water (or evidence of high water) that you’re observing and make note of the weather and broader flood impacts.
4. Click on the Contribute tab to document your observations and upload your photos. You can use a computer to submit your observations once home, which may be easier than using your mobile phone.

Beyond building awareness of the often-invisible flooding occurring increasingly often in our coastal communities, data from this project is employed by planners, emergency management personnel, and flood forecasters in their work.

Check out when the highest tides are projected to occur in 2026.

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