Hazard taxonomy · 73 threats and hazards across 13 categories
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Dollar figures are FEMA’s expected annual loss, summed nationally. Open any hazard for its charts, plan-profile checklist and a sample brief.

Natural hazards

Weather, water, fire, the ground and the coast.

32 hazards

Disease and living systems

Outbreaks in people, animals, crops and water.

13 hazards

Infrastructure and technology

Failures in what we build, move and run.

16 hazards

Human-caused and societal

Harm that arrives with intent, and the systems people depend on breaking down.

12 hazards

18 items carry FEMA National Risk Index data: national totals from NRI v1.20.0 across 3,232 counties. Expected annual loss sums NRI's building, agriculture and population-equivalence losses; “high” means FEMA rated the county Relatively High or Very High. Hazards NRI doesn't model are shown as the gap they are, never a zero.

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