Dorchester compared with all land on Earth
The area around Dorchester scores 44 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 44% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat50temperature
- Flood20rivers
- Wind7storms
- Earthquake64quakes
- Wildfire79fires
- Climate velocity36warming
- Air76pollution
- Water57scarcity
- Coast6sea-rise
- Ground53landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 33 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 43.6; its strongest pillar is wildfire at 79.0 and its weakest is coast at 6.2. Flood. Flood pillar 19.5, safer than 20% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0.36 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Tornado. Wind pillar 6.6, safer than 7% of land cells; tornado touchdowns nearby 8.5 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 6.6, safer than 7% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 2.3 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 63.5, safer than 27% of land cells and level with 73%; 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 79.0, safer than 79% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0.00080 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). Coast. Coast pillar 6.2, safer than 6% of land cells; five-hundred-year tsunami run-up on the nearest coast 0.57 m. Source: Global Tsunami Model (vintage: 2017, earthquake sources only). 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.