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The first step in disaster preparedness is to know
your risks. Knowing which hazards exist where you live and work
increases your situational understanding to inform and tailor a household,
business, or community emergency preparedness plan. In a major upgrade to
the beta version of the tool, released in 2016, this second version of the
US Natural Hazards Index (NHI v2.0) helps visualize natural hazard
data for fourteen hazard types in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico
(subject to data availability) at the census tract level. All hazard layers
are derived from publicly available data sources. The index was created to
provide households, communities, and public health and emergency management
practitioners an overview of the natural hazards at the US census tract
level and to facilitate the comparison of the presence and degree of each
hazard along with a summary index score. The Natural Hazards Index was
created in partnership with AllianceBernstein.
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