Joe Biden's $3.8M Delaware holiday home 'will be FLOODED within five years': Experts say 98% chance six-bed mansion will be underwater by 2027 because of surging sea levels
- President Joe Biden's Delaware vacation home is located within FEMA's Special Flood Hazard Area - the zone that would be underwater in a 100-year flood
- Rising sea levels are due to climate change, but the land the house is on is naturally sinking
- Research nonprofit Climate Central says up to $35 billion in real estate could be underwater by 2050 due to rising sea levels
- The projected sea level increase would be felt in a range of places, including the Hamptons, beach towns in south Jersey and coastal areas in Los Angeles
President Joe Biden's $3.8 million vacation home in Delaware has a 98 percent chance of being flooded in the next five years due to climate change increasing sea levels.
The six-bedroom house is located in Rehoboth and sits less than a mile from the shore line, which places it within FEMA's Special Flood Hazard Area - the zone that would be overrun with water during a 100-year flood, CNN reports.
The Mid-Atlantic state has experienced a sea level rise of more than a foot in the past century, but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns it will continue to rise over the next century and flowing water will eventually overtake its coastal areas.
Although climate change plays a major role, the land Biden's home sits on is naturally sinking and puts this region at an even higher risk of rising sea levels - and levels are increasing faster than anywhere else in the world.
![President Joe Biden’s $3.8 million vacation home in Delaware has a 98 percent chance of being flooded in the next five years due to climate change increasing sea levels](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/09/15/17/62419717-11212925-President_Joe_Biden_s_3_8_million_vacation_home_in_Delaware_has_-m-17_1663260375104.jpg)
President Joe Biden's $3.8 million vacation home in Delaware has a 98 percent chance of being flooded in the next five years due to climate change increasing sea levels
Approximately 5.4 percent, or 100 square miles, of Delaware resides in the 100-year floodplain and by 2050, this land mass is predicted to increase to 7.1 percent or 130 square miles due to rising sea levels, according to States at Risk.
But Biden's neighborhood sits right in the danger zone where sea levels are expected to rise 1.5 feet by 2040 and then five feet by 2120.
The million-dollar vacation home appears to have been to overcome flooding, as the living quarters are 10 feet off ground because they sit above high ceiling garages.
And this seems to be the running design for most newer homes around the neighborhood.
Rehoboth beach is part of Sussex County, which is the third with the newest homes built in the highest-risk area for future flooding out of all US coastal counties.
![Biden's vacation home is located in Rehoboth and sits less than a mile from the shore line, which places it within FEMA's Special Flood Hazard Area - the zone that would be overrun with water during a 100-year flood](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/09/15/15/62419565-11212925-Biden_s_vacation_home_is_located_in_Rehoboth_and_sits_less_than_-a-6_1663252210739.jpg)
Biden's vacation home is located in Rehoboth and sits less than a mile from the shore line, which places it within FEMA's Special Flood Hazard Area - the zone that would be overrun with water during a 100-year flood
Regardless of the risk, about $500 million worth of new homes have been built in the area since 2010 - Biden's was constructed in 2017, Delaware Online reports. The president purchased the home for $2.47 million, but it has since gone up in value to $3.8 million.
The last storm to cause major destruction in 1962 ruined 2,000 homes near the coastline of Rehoboth beach to Fenwick Island.
The area where the president's home sits is one of multiple coastal regions that are likely to be underwater and uninhabitable by the middle of this century - putting up to $35 billion worth of real estate at risk, according to maps produced by the research nonprofit Climate Central.
Westhampton Beach in New York, where the median home price is $1.8 million and people like Eli Manning and Adam Sandler are residents, would be inundated even if sea levels rise by just five feet.
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Westhampton Beach in New York, where the median home price is $1.8 million and people like Eli Manning and Adam Sandler are residents, would be inundated even if sea levels rise by just five feet
![In Los Angeles, a five foot increase would completely flood the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge - which is a 965-acre area that's a key stopover and wintering habitat for thousands of birds that migrate up and down the Pacific Flyway each year](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/09/15/15/62445351-11212925-In_Los_Angeles_a_five_foot_increase_would_completely_flood_the_S-a-8_1663252210822.jpg)
In Los Angeles, a five foot increase would completely flood the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge - which is a 965-acre area that's a key stopover and wintering habitat for thousands of birds that migrate up and down the Pacific Flyway each year
![Stone Harbor, where pop singer Taylor Swift spent most of her summers up until age 14 when her parents sold their home at the beach community, would also be inundated in this 5-foot flooding scenario](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/09/15/15/62445349-11212925-Stone_Harbor_where_pop_singer_Taylor_Swift_spent_most_of_her_sum-a-9_1663252210827.jpg)
Stone Harbor, where pop singer Taylor Swift spent most of her summers up until age 14 when her parents sold their home at the beach community, would also be inundated in this 5-foot flooding scenario
In Los Angeles, a five foot increase would completely flood the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge - which is a 965-acre area that's a key stopover and wintering habitat for thousands of birds that migrate up and down the Pacific Flyway each year.
The picturesque beach community of Belmont Shore - known for its canals, home-lined boardwalks and shops - would be totally wiped out by about five feet of flooding. The area, which is a part of Long Beach, has an average home price of $1.1 million.
Southern shore towns in New Jersey would be uninhabitable if sea levels rose just a few feet.
Places like Ocean City, Wildwood, Avalon and Stone Harbor would be under water if nothing is done to mitigate climate change. In Wildwood, the median list price of homes was just under $500,000 in August; in Avalon, the average home price tops out at $2.2 million.
Stone Harbor, where pop singer Taylor Swift spent most of her summers up until age 14 when her parents sold their home at the beach community, would also be inundated in this 5-foot flooding scenario.
'Higher flood waters are reaching further inland, flooding properties and buildings that have never flooded before,' Climate Central researchers wrote.
The threat of climate change goes beyond just real estate, experts note. Climate Central examined 328 counties in 25 coastal states and found that rising waters would threaten tax revenue that also funds public schools, emergency services and municipal services - leading eventually to a 'potential downward spiral of disinvestment and population decline.'
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Biden is known for taking action to combat climate change
'If a town has no other income source but property taxes and those property taxes can't be saved, that town is not sustainable,' A.R. Siders, a climate resilience expert at the University of Delaware, told Scientific American.
Florida, Texas and Louisiana would also face substantial flooding risk, according to Climate Central's analysis.
The climate nonprofit's report ultimately concluded that nearly 9 million acres - an area nearly the size of New Hampshire - will be underwater by 2100. Those 9 million acres include 300,000 buildings and $109 billion worth of real estate.
Biden wants to combat climate change with a plan to achieve a 100 percent clean energy economy and net-zero emissions no later than 2050.
Biden's climate and environmental justice proposal will make a federal investment of $1.7 trillion over the next ten years, leveraging additional private sector and state and local investments to total more than $5 trillion.
However, the plan is not black and white, as it will cost each taxpayer an additional $3,500 each year to fund infrastructure to make it happen.
The Biden administration's pledge would require by far the most ambitious U.S. climate effort ever, nearly doubling the reductions that the Obama administration had committed to in the Paris climate accord.
But Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell dismissed the administration's plans as costly and ineffective.
'This is quite the one-two punch,' McConnell said in a Senate speech Thursday. 'Toothless requests of our foreign adversaries... and maximum pain for American citizens.'
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