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Data Download. Help. The National Risk Index is a dataset and online tool to help illustrate the U.S communities most at risk for natural hazards. The Index leverages available source data for 18 natural hazards, social vulnerability, and community resilience to develop a baseline relative risk measurement for each U.S county and Census tract.
Mar 4, 2024 · The National Risk Index (NRI) is an easy-to-use, interactive tool that shows which communities are most at risk to natural hazards . It includes data about the expected annual losses to individual natural hazards, social vulnerability and community resilience, available at county and Census tract levels. Access the National Risk Index.
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Dec 9, 2021 · (Right) Smoke plumes from numerous California wildfires, as seen from the GOES-17 satellite on August 23, 2021. Ida and the western wildfires were two of the U.S. weather and climate disasters in 2021 that each exceeded $1 billion in damages. A new NOAA tool now pinpoints the risk of natural disasters across the U.S. down to county level.
- Disasters by Region
- Billion-Dollar Disasters by Month
- Mapping County Level Hazard Risk, Vulnerability, and Projected Future Impacts
The South, Central and Southeast regions of the U.S., including the Caribbean U.S. territories, have suffered the highest cumulative damage costs, reflecting the severity and widespread vulnerability of those regions to a variety of weather and climate events. In addition to the highest number of billion-dollar disasters experienced, Texas also lea...
The 42-year climatology of U.S. billion-dollar disasters offers a view of risk from extreme events, which are often seasonal in nature. For example, during the spring months (March-May) severe storms including tornadoes, hail, and high winds often occur in many Central and Southeast states. During the spring months there is also potential for major...
To better reflect multi-hazard risk – the Billion-dollar disaster site now provides a mapping tool that provides county-level information on natural disaster hazards across the United States. This interactive NOAA mapping tool provides detailed information on a location’s susceptibility to weather and climate hazards that can lead to billion-dollar...
Jan 10, 2023 · In 2022, the United States experienced 18 separate weather or climate disasters that each resulted in at least $1 billion in damages. NOAA map by NCEI. 2022 was also deadly, in that the 18 events of 2022 caused at least 474 direct or indirect fatalities—the 8 th most disaster-related fatalities for the contiguous U.S. since 1980.
Feb 3, 2022 · Our maps account for flooding from rivers, rainfall and the oceans – both now and into the future – across the entire contiguous United States. They are produced at scales that show street-by-street impacts, and unlike FEMA maps, they cover floods of many different sizes, from nuisance flooding that may occur every few years to once-in-a ...
