Busan compared with all land on Earth
The area around Busan scores 25 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 25% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat32temperature
- Flood0rivers
- Wind1storms
- Earthquake22quakes
- Wildfire69fires
- Climate velocity44warming
- Air45pollution
- Water38scarcity
- Coast5sea-rise
- Ground22landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 16 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 25.2; its strongest pillar is wildfire at 68.5 and its weakest is flood at 0.4. Flood. Flood pillar 0.4, safer than 0% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0.95 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Hurricane. Wind pillar 0.6, safer than 1% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 8.0 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 22.0, safer than 22% of land cells; 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). Wildfire. Wildfire pillar 68.5, safer than 68% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0.0062 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). Air quality. Air quality pillar 44.5, safer than 44% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 14.3 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Water stress. Water stress pillar 38.4, safer than 38% of land cells; water stress 2.2 score. Source: WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (vintage: Aqueduct 4.0, July 2023). Coverage: Tornado records cover the United States only, so this area has no tornado reading: a gap in the record, not a measured zero. This is a statistical summary of public hazard data, 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.