Catch the King Results
Catch the King (CTK) is an annual king tide mapping event that recruits volunteers to collect flooding data during the Perigean king tides—the highest tides of the year (view our 2025 flyer here!). This record-holding, crowdsourced flood data collection program has been engaging with volunteers since 2017. Data is primarily shared with Dr. Derek Loftis, a scientist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), to validate and ground-truth VIMS flood prediction models. View results from over the years below!
Catch the King Results
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Catch the King 2025 Results
Thanks to the efforts of 167 volunteers, Catch the King 2024 was an incredible success! Community flood mappers from across coastal Virginia collected over 27,000 data points, delineating the impacts of king tide flooding and a nor’easter from October 6th-12th. Read more at our blog post here and check back later for more details!
Catch the King Over The Years
Check out this composite data map from VIMS showcasing all of our data since 2017.
2024
187 community flood mappers from across coastal Virginia collected over 22,000 data points delineating the impacts of king tide flooding from October 17th-20th. Check out this composite data map from VIMS showcasing all of our data since 2017 or click the map below to explore 2024’s results.
In case you missed it, check out the recording to the right of our volunteer celebration and arts contest ceremony, held at the Brock Environmental Center on February 27th, 2025.
2023
Work in progress! Come back later for more.
Get Data!
Catch the King data is available to view via the Sea Level Rise phone app and the SeaRisingSolutions web portal for Tide Mappers who have participated in the mapping event.
The general public does not have access to download CTK data sheets. If you are interested in utilizing CTK data or having a spreadsheet copy of the data, please reach out to our team.
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