Austin compared with all land on Earth
The area around Austin scores 53 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 53% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat49temperature
- Flood48rivers
- Wind44storms
- Earthquake59quakes
- Wildfire50fires
- Climate velocity60warming
- Air79pollution
- Water34scarcity
- Coast54sea-rise
- Ground70landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 50 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 53.2; its strongest pillar is air quality at 78.6 and its weakest is water stress at 34.2. Flood. Flood pillar 48.3, safer than 24% of land cells and level with 49%; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Tornado. Wind pillar 43.5, safer than 18% of land cells and level with 52%; tornado touchdowns nearby 22.3 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 43.5, safer than 18% of land cells and level with 52%; tropical storm passes nearby 0 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 59.1, safer than 18% of land cells and level with 82%; large earthquakes nearby since the start of the century before last 0 events/century. Source: USGS ComCat (vintage: ComCat M≥6.5 1900–2025, M≥5 1973–2025); USGS Slab2 (vintage: Slab2, March 2018). Air quality. Air quality pillar 78.6, safer than 79% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 6.7 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Water stress. Water stress pillar 34.2, safer than 34% of land cells; water stress 1.7 score. Source: WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (vintage: Aqueduct 4.0, July 2023). Coverage: Every pillar has data for this cell. This is a statistical summary of public hazard data, a research estimate, not advice about any property or decision.
Terra scores ~10 km hexagonal cells from public global datasets — it is area analysis, not a property assessment. Tornado history covers the United States only; flood hazard is modeled at ~1 km and ignores local defenses; hurricane records before 1966 and wildfire records before 2001 are incomplete. Where data is missing or coarse for your area, Terra says so instead of guessing.