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High Flood and Wildfire Scores Recorded For Municipal Bond Offerings This Week

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Multiple municipal bond offerings this week have a high exposure to climate risk, specifically high Flood and Wildfire Scores, according to ICE Climate Data.

An $8 million offering from Northern Potter School District, Pa., records a Flood Risk Score of 5.0 out of 5.0, ICE reports. Locations with a component Physical Climate Risk Score, which includes Flood, Wildfire and Hurricane, of 2.0 or higher out of 5.0 indicate high physical climate risk due to hurricane, flooding or wildfire events.

A $9 million bond deal from Mariposa County Unified School District, Calif., has a Wildfire Risk Score of 4.2 out of 5.0 on ICE's scale, while a $6 million tranche from Harris County MUD No. 50, Texas, records a Combined Physical Risk Score of 3.1.

Separately, a $179 million offering from New Orleans, La., records an Acute Physical Risk Score of 4.2, and a $21 million deal from Haldane Central School District, N.Y., has an Acute Physical Risk Score of 2.0, due to their proximity to weather-related events, according to ICE Climate Data.

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The ICE Climate Risk Score is a singular, 0.0-5.0 assessment score that blends all the ICE Spatial Intelligence Platform's climate hazard models together into one rigorous, relative measure of total property risk from physical climate hazards to a given location or set of locations related to the investment. To learn more about the ICE Climate Risk Data, visit: ICE Sustainable Finance Data (https://www.ice.com/data-services/sustainable-finance-data/disclaimer)

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