Bakersfield compared with all land on Earth
The area around Bakersfield scores 45 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 45% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat31temperature
- Flood64rivers
- Wind61storms
- Earthquake19quakes
- Wildfire32fires
- Climate velocity56warming
- Air46pollution
- Water35scarcity
- Coast—sea-rise
- Ground58landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 42 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 44.5; its strongest pillar is flood at 63.6 and its weakest is earthquake at 18.5. Flood. Flood pillar 63.6, safer than 39% 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 61.4, safer than 36% of land cells and level with 52%; tornado touchdowns nearby 0.93 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 61.4, safer than 36% of land cells and level with 52%; tropical storm passes nearby 0 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 18.5, safer than 7% of land cells and level with 23%; large earthquakes nearby since the start of the century before last 4.8 events/century. Source: USGS ComCat (vintage: ComCat M≥6.5 1900–2025, M≥5 1973–2025); USGS Slab2 (vintage: Slab2, March 2018). Wildfire. Wildfire pillar 31.9, safer than 32% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0.0077 detections/km²/yr. Source: NASA FIRMS (vintage: MODIS C6.1 2001-2024, vegetation fires, confidence >= 30); NASA FIRMS VIIRS (vintage: VIIRS NOAA-20 2020-2024, vegetation fires, nominal or high confidence); ERA5 Fire Weather Index (vintage: 1991-2020). Coverage: No coast data exists for this cell, so it is left out of the combined score and the remaining pillar weights are renormalized. 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.