Dedza compared with all land on Earth
The area around Dedza scores 51 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 51% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat79temperature
- Flood49rivers
- Wind61storms
- Earthquake35quakes
- Wildfire28fires
- Climate velocity79warming
- Air44pollution
- Water49scarcity
- Coast54sea-rise
- Ground38landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 43 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 51.1; its strongest pillar is climate velocity at 78.8 and its weakest is wildfire at 28.3. Flood. Flood pillar 48.6, 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). Hurricane. Wind pillar 61.2, safer than 22% of land cells and level with 78%; tropical storm passes nearby 0 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 35.0, safer than 13% of land cells and level with 44%; 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 28.3, safer than 28% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0.017 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). Climate velocity. Climate velocity pillar 78.8, safer than 79% of land cells; observed warming rate 0.22 °C/decade. Source: NASA GISTEMP (vintage: 2024). 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, 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.