Resilience Insights

Climate Scenarios for Extreme Temperature and Precipitation provide historical summaries and predictions of future climate conditions based on two levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: RCP4.5 (low emissions) and RCP8.5 (high emissions).

The FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) indicates areas with a 1% chance of flooding each year, referred to as the 100-year floodplain.

NOAA Storm Surge Risk simulates storm surges caused by tropical cyclones.

The NOAA Sea Level Rise Inundation model depicts coastal areas' potential inundation (or flooding) resulting from a projected 1-10 feet sea level rise above current Mean Higher High Water (MHHW) conditions.

The Self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) measures soil moisture and indicates drought severity.

The UrbanFootprint Coastal Flood Risk Model uniquely estimates both present and future coastal flood risk for the contiguous United States (CONUS). This dataset accounts for the variability inherent in environmental factors, and the future scenario is calibrated to account for sea level rise adjustments.

The UrbanFootprint Current and Bias-Corrected Future Severe Drought Risk Dataset calculates a bias-corrected future drought using CMIP6 data compared with the historical simulation and applies that change to the current risk.

The UrbanFootprint Enhanced Earthquake Hazard Risk Model produces a single, enhanced seismic hazard map for CONUS that accounts for variability in Vs30.

Our UrbanFootprint Gap-Free Flood Zone Dataset combines FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Estimated Floodplain Map of the Conterminous U.S. to provide complete CONUS coverage and substantial improvements over FEMA alone. 

The UrbanFootprint Noncyclonic Wind Risk Dataset Model identifies the maximum annual wind you'll likely experience at any location in the continental United States.

The UrbanFootprint Tornado Wind Risk Model enables you to assess localized tornado wind risk across the United States for all tornado magnitudes on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale on an H3 zoom level 4 grid.

The UrbanFootprint Tropical Cyclone Wind Risk Model contains the rate of 1-minute sustained wind exceedance in wind events per year. We use this dataset as a general indicator of exposure to various wind speeds.

The USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential (WHP) indicates the relative potential for a wildfire that would be difficult to contain, and it doesn't provide data in urbanized areas.