Climate Hazards
Climate-related hazards in real-time
Climate-related hazards are affecting U.S. communities every day. View real-time statistics and maps documenting where people, property, and infrastructure may be exposed to hazards. Click any hazard below to display its associated map. Click areas of interest on any map for more information.
Climate-related hazard information
Explore maps, data, federal programs, funding opportunities, and other resources to support your climate resilience planning for these issues.
Days with abnormally high temperature are increasing, putting human health, ecosystems, and infrastructure at risk.
Drought costs the United States around $40 billion per year. Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of droughts.
Wildfires are growing in frequency and intensity, threatening communities, forests, and the economies that depend on them.
Whenever rainfall or snowmelt accumulates faster than soils can absorb it or rivers can carry it away, flooding can occur.
America’s coastal communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure—and the economies they support—face increasing hazards from sea level rise.
Past Hazard Exposure and Risk
A number of resources exist to help you understand past impacts from climate hazards and the costs they impose. Explore the resources below to gain more insights on past exposure and risks in your area.
The National Risk Index is a dataset and online tool to help illustrate the United States communities most at risk for 18 natural hazards. It was designed and built by FEMA in close collaboration with various stakeholders and partners in academia; local, state and federal government; and private industry.
Community Disaster Resilience Zones aim to build and strengthen community resilience across the nation by driving federal, public, and private resources to the most at-risk and in-need communities.
The U.S. has sustained 373 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2023). The total cost of these 373 events exceeds $2.645 trillion.
Connecting Past and Future Exposure
A key part of building climate resilience is to inform action with a data-driven perspective connecting past hazards with future trends for climate impacts. Access the resources below to develop a mental framework for climate resilience, and when ready, explore future exposure to climate hazards in your area.
With an understanding of the climate impacts your area faces, how do you start to think about building climate resilience? Developing a mental framework for climate resilience will help you connect past climate hazards with future exposure to inform decisions and actions.
At the heart of CMRA is the Assessment Tool - an interactive application that provides statistics, maps, and reports that can help people document their climate exposure, now and in the future.