Climate & Hazard Insights
Climate & Hazard Insights offers over 200 climate and hazard metrics from our Climate & Hazards Foundation. These insights also bring in data from the Built Environment and People & Vulnerabilities Foundations to continue offering the intersectional perspective. As a result, you can use these insights to evaluate current and future exposure risk to community attributes, such as population or property value, down to the parcel level.
Review the layers available in Analyst and the available schemas to start working with Climate & Hazard Insights. You can learn more about the specific hazards and scenarios for point and line locations.
Climate & Hazard Insights Layers
With the Climate & Hazard Insights layers, you can focus on climate and hazard exposures' potential impact on key community attributes at supported geographies.
These layers reflect the metrics included in the Climate & Hazard Insights schema, which you can review online or export directly from Analyst.
You can work with Climate & Hazard Insights layers in several ways:
Core Insight – As a Core Insight, your Analyst organization already has default Climate & Hazard Insights layers included in it. You can add these layers to any project. These default options are named Climate & Hazard Insights – Parcel and Climate & Hazard Insights - <census unit>. You can't rename these default layers.
A specified set of locations – You can run a location analysis on any point or line layer in Analyst, which can be created in several ways. In all scenarios, you'll receive layers named:
Climate & Hazard Insights – Parcel - for layer name – parcel that intersects the point or location.
Climate & Hazard Insights - census unit for layer name – for points.
Climate & Hazard Insights - buffered distance for layer name – for buffers.
Climate & Hazard Insights – 50m Segments for layer name – for lines.
Climate & Hazard Insights - Lines for layer name – for lines.
Climate & Hazard Insights – Polygon for layer name – for polygons.
Unlike the default layers, you can change their names. You can view the layer information to verify when the analysis was run. These details can be helpful if you need to re-run an analysis and need to differentiate the layers.
Climate & Hazard Insights Schemas
We're providing a copy of the complete Climate and Hazard schemas for reference. Refer to Climate & Hazard Insights Hazard Summary and Climate & Hazard Insights for Lines Hazard Summary for information about the supported hazards and scenarios included in the schemas. When working with data schemas, you can navigate information in them by:
Searching for terms on the page using Command ⌘+F (Mac) or Ctrl+F (Windows).
Clicking in the schema window and then copying and pasting the content into a spreadsheet application to look at the details more closely.
Point Locations
When working with point locations, we provide schemas for parcel and census geographies. If you have included a buffer in your analysis, then you also receive a schema for that buffer, which follows the same structure as the census schema.
Parcel Schema
Census Schema
See Supported Geographies to verify the geographies included in this schema.
Line Locations
When working with line locations, you have schemas available for the line, 50m segments, and the parcels that intersect with the lines (which is the same parcel schema returned for point locations).
When working with line locations, we provide schemas for the parcels that intersect with the lines (the same parcel schema returned for point locations), a census schema (the same census schema returned for point locations), a line schema, and a schema for the 50m line segments. If you have included a buffer in your analysis, then you also receive a schema for that buffer, which also uses the census schema.
Line Schema
Line-Segment Schema
Polygons
When working with polygons, you receive schemas for the parcels that intersect with the polygons (the same parcel schema returned for point locations), a census schema (the same census schema returned for point locations), and a polygon schema which includes a single line for each included polygon using the census schema. If you have included a buffer in your analysis, then you also receive a schema for that buffer, which also uses the census schema.
Climate & Hazard Insights Hazard Summary
Hazard Values and Aggregation Exposures summarizes the hazard exposures for Climate & Hazard insights at the parcel and aggregation levels from Base Canvas, including total value, total population, total households, total employees, and total land area. See Supported Geographies for a complete list of aggregation levels.
The Climate & Hazard Insights layers and schemas include these metrics.
Hazard | Parcel Exposure | Aggregation Exposure |
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Indication of whether the parcel is in a 100-year floodplain. | Percent exposure to 100-year floodplain. | |
FEMA flood zone value. | Percent exposure to 100-year FEMA floodplain. | |
Depth (in feet) of storm surge inundation for current (1980-2017) and future (2015-2050) scenarios in 30, 100, and 300 years. | Percent exposure for every 30, 100, and 300 years for the current (1980-2017) and future (2015-2050) scenarios to:
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Depth (in feet) of storm surge inundation resulting from Category 1-5 storms | Percent exposure to storm surge from Category 4 storm or worse with inundation depths of 3 feet or more. | |
Depth (in meters) of inundation as a result of a 2ft sea level rise | Percent exposure to inundation depths of 0.5m or more under the 2ft sea level rise. | |
Indication of wildfire risk. | Percent exposure to moderate or higher wildfire risk. | |
Mean scPDSI value and the number of months per decade exposed to severe drought in these scenarios:
| Percent exposure to severe drought at 36 months and 48 months per decade in these scenarios:
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Number of days with maximum temperatures of 100°F in these scenarios:
| Percent exposure to maximum temperatures of 100°F in 10+ days and 30+ days in these scenarios:
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Number of inches of rain in 5-day maximum in these scenarios:
| Percent exposure to 5-day maximum precipitation of 6+ inches in these scenarios:
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Annual frequency of tropical cyclones in or exceeding each category for the current (1980-2017) and median future (2015-2050) scenarios:
| Percent exposure to hurricane winds at or exceeding each storm category with frequencies corresponding to 1 or more events every 30 or 100 years for the historical period (1980-2017) and median future (2015-2050):
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Probability that a location will experience tornado winds of EF 0-5. | Percent exposure to:
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Estimated wind speed (mph) at 50-year mean return intervals (MRI) | Percent exposure to damaging (noncyclonic) winds of 65, 75, and 85 mph at 50-year return intervals. | |
2% chance of peak ground acceleration (PGA) exceedance in 50 years. | Percent exposure to these peak ground accelerations (PGA) at a 2% probability of exceedance in 50 years:
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Climate & Hazard Insights for Lines Hazard Summary
Hazard Values and Aggregation Exposures summarizes the hazard exposures for Climate & Hazard insights at the parcel and aggregation levels from Base Canvas, including total value, total population, total households, total employees, and total land area. See Supported Geographies for a complete list of aggregation levels.
The Climate & Hazard Insights for Lines layers and schemas include these metrics.
Hazard | Line Segment Exposure | Line Exposure |
|---|---|---|
Indication of whether the parcel is in a 100-year floodplain. | Percent exposure to 100-year floodplain. | |
FEMA flood zone value. | Percent exposure to 100-year FEMA floodplain. | |
Depth (in feet) of storm surge inundation for current (1980-2017) and future (2015-2050) scenarios in 30, 100, and 300 years. | Percent exposure for every 30, 100, and 300 years for the current (1980-2017) and future (2015-2050) scenarios to:
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Depth (in feet) of storm surge inundation resulting from Category 1-5 storms | Percent exposure to storm surge from Category 4 storm or worse with inundation depths of 3 feet or more. | |
Depth (in meters) of inundation as a result of a 2ft sea level rise | Percent exposure to inundation depths of 0.5m or more under the 2ft sea level rise. | |
Indication of wildfire risk. | Percent exposure to moderate or higher wildfire risk. | |
Mean scPDSI value and the number of months per decade exposed to severe drought in these scenarios:
| Percent exposure to severe drought at 36 months and 48 months per decade in these scenarios:
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Number of days with maximum temperatures of 100°F in these scenarios:
| Percent exposure to maximum temperatures of 100°F in 10+ days and 30+ days in these scenarios:
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Number of inches of rain in 5-day maximum in these scenarios:
| Percent exposure to 5-day maximum precipitation of 6+ inches in these scenarios:
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Annual frequency of tropical cyclones in or exceeding each category for the current (1980-2017) and median future (2015-2050) scenarios:
| Percent exposure to hurricane winds at or exceeding each storm category with frequencies corresponding to 1 or more events every 30 or 100 years for the historical period (1980-2017) and median future (2015-2050):
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Probability that a location will experience tornado winds of EF 0-5. | Percent exposure to:
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Estimated wind speed (mph) at 50-year mean return intervals (MRI) | Percent exposure to damaging (noncyclonic) winds of 65, 75, and 85 mph at 50-year return intervals. | |
2% chance of peak ground acceleration (PGA) exceedance in 50 years. | Percent exposure to these peak ground accelerations (PGA) at a 2% probability of exceedance in 50 years:
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