This presentation discusses the importance of levees in protecting lives and property in Fort Bend County, Texas. There are 19 levee improvement districts and municipal utility districts in the county, encompassing over 50 square miles and protecting over $10 billion in structures and $14 billion total in structures and land. The levee systems total over 99 miles, protecting over 27 miles of the Brazos River frontage. Over 141,000 people, or about a quarter of the county's population, benefit from the flood protection provided by the levee systems.

1. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
The Importance of Levees to Life and Property in Fort Bend County
Doug Barnes, GISP
Sr. Planning Coordinator
Office of Emergency Management
Fort Bend County

2. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
Presentation Overview
• Levees at the national level
• Levees at the county level
• Interesting statistics about levees
and LIDs
• How levees relate to lives and
property in Fort Bend County

3. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management

4. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
In other words, 881 counties account for:
• 28% of all U.S. counties,
or about 1 in 4 counties
• 37% of the U.S. land area
• 55% of the U.S. population,
or about 156 million
people

5. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
Levee Districts in Fort Bend County:
Unincorporated Split Incorporated/Unincorporated Incorporated
• LID 6 (River Park West) • LID 15 (Sugar Land) • First Colony LID 1
• LID 7 (New Territory) • Sienna Plantation (Mo City) • First Colony LID 2
• LID 11 (Greatwood) • LID 2 (Sugar Land)
• LID 19 (Riverstone) • LID 10 (Sugar Land)
• LID 20 (Kingdom Heights) • LID 14 (Sugar Land)
• MUD 121 (River Park West) • LID 17 (Sugar Land)
• Pecan Grove MUD • MUD 46 (Missouri City)
• MUD 49 (Missouri City)
• Palmer Plantation MUD 1
(Mo City)
• Palmer Plantation MUD 2
(Mo City)

6. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
Levee Districts in Fort Bend County:

7. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
GIS-Calculated Statistics for Levee Districts in
Fort Bend County:
• 19 LIDs/MUDs
• Account for 53.29 Sq. Miles
(885.44 Sq. Miles in Fort Bend)
• 54,447 parcels located within
FBC levee districts (258,428
parcels in the County, or about
1 in 5)

8. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
Levees in Fort Bend County:

9. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
GIS-Calculated Statistics for Levees in Fort
Bend County:
• Fort Bend Levees
• 99 miles of levee if Fort Bend
County
• 27.4 miles of the Brazos River
frontage is protected by levee in
Fort Bend County

10. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
How Does This Relate to Lives and Property?
• Total value of structures protected
by levees in Fort Bend County?
$10.6 billion
$10,595,767,533.00 to be exact!!!
• Total value of structures + land protected
by levees in Fort Bend County?
$14.1 billion
$14,110,898,663.00 to be exact!!!
• Total number of lives protected by levees
in Fort bend County?
141,895
or, about 1 in 4 people

11. Fort Bend County
Office of Emergency Management
Questions?
Doug Barnes, GISP
Sr. Planning Coordinator
Office of Emergency Management
Fort Bend County
douglas.barnes@co.fort-bend.tx.us