Cheektowaga compared with all land on Earth
The area around Cheektowaga scores 51 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 51% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat64temperature
- Flood34rivers
- Wind22storms
- Earthquake59quakes
- Wildfire54fires
- Climate velocity43warming
- Air72pollution
- Water72scarcity
- Coast54sea-rise
- Ground66landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 46 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 51.4; its strongest pillar is water stress at 71.6 and its weakest is wind at 22.4. Flood. Flood pillar 33.8, safer than 18% of land cells and level with 32%; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0.44 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Wind. Wind pillar 22.4, safer than 22% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 0.98 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01); NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). 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). Wildfire. Wildfire pillar 54.1, safer than 54% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0.00063 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). Water stress. Water stress pillar 71.6, safer than 59% of land cells and level with 25%; water stress 0 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.