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Distribution-informed machine learning for flash flood susceptibility: integrating weibull extreme value theory with

Farrukh A Chishtie1,2, Rana U Ali3, Abdolreza Bahremand4

  • 1Peaceful Society, Science and Innovation Foundation, Vancouver BC, Canada. fachisht@uwo.ca.

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Predicting flash floods is hard due to imbalanced data. New features from Extreme Value Theory significantly improve flood detection models, outperforming traditional metrics for rare event prediction.

Keywords:
Class imbalanceDistribution-informed modelingExtreme Value TheoryFlash floodsMachine learningRare event predictionSHAP interpretabilityWeibull distribution

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Area of Science:

  • Hydrology and Meteorology
  • Data Science and Machine Learning
  • Extreme Weather Event Prediction

Background:

  • Flash floods are a major global hazard, but predicting them is hindered by imbalanced observational data.
  • Traditional evaluation metrics like accuracy and Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) are unreliable for rare events, masking model failures.
  • Existing methods fail to adequately capture the complexities of extreme precipitation events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the critical methodological gap in evaluating rare event prediction models.
  • To introduce and validate distribution theory-informed features for enhanced flash flood prediction.
  • To demonstrate the superiority of new evaluation metrics and feature engineering over traditional approaches.

Main Methods:

  • Integrated Extreme Value Theory (EVT) using Weibull distribution analysis to generate 24 novel features from 16 years of ERA5-Land reanalysis data for Nova Scotia.
  • Evaluated seven model configurations, including Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, and Artificial Neural Networks, against Environment and Climate Change Canada operational warning thresholds.
  • Employed SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) analysis to interpret feature importance and model behavior.

Main Results:

  • Models incorporating six Weibull-derived features nearly doubled flood detection recall (0.35 to 0.65) and improved F1-score (0.48 to 0.74) while maintaining high precision (87%).
  • Support Vector Machines achieved 93.4% balanced accuracy with perfect recall; Artificial Neural Networks showed a balanced operational profile (75% recall, 65% precision).
  • SHAP analysis confirmed that physically meaningful interaction features (e.g., intensity-duration, rain-on-saturated-soil) are more critical than raw precipitation for accurate predictions.

Conclusions:

  • Distribution theory-informed feature generation significantly enhances flash flood prediction performance, particularly for rare events.
  • Comprehensive reporting of balanced accuracy, precision, and recall is essential for imbalanced datasets to avoid masking operational failures.
  • The study provides crucial guidance for practitioners, emphasizing the need for advanced feature engineering and appropriate evaluation metrics in extreme weather prediction.