Claim: Projections from the Department of Infrastructure indicate that 38% of all properties in Northern Ireland will be at risk of flooding by 2080.
Fact-check: Will nearly 40% of NI properties be at risk from flooding by 2080? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: a belfast telegraph article noted that 5% of ni properties are currently at risk of flooding, and that dfi projections indicate this is going to increase by 33%.in saying that this means 38% of properties will be at risk of flooding, the newspaper has confused percentage increases with percentage-point increases. in fact, dfi modelling suggests around 6.7% of ni properties – almost 60,000 in total – will be at risk of flooding by 2080.
Organisation: FactCheckNI
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Date published: 2023-09-05T00:00:00