Dubai compared with all land on Earth
The area around Dubai scores 35 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 35% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat3temperature
- Flood85rivers
- Wind64storms
- Earthquake15quakes
- Wildfire23fires
- Climate velocity23warming
- Air10pollution
- Water6scarcity
- Coast6sea-rise
- Ground73landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 32 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 34.8; its strongest pillar is flood at 85.3 and its weakest is heat at 2.7. Flood. Flood pillar 85.3, safer than 85% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0.011 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Hurricane. Wind pillar 63.7, safer than 27% of land cells and level with 73%; tropical storm passes nearby 0 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 14.8, safer than 15% 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 22.6, safer than 23% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0 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). Heat. Heat pillar 2.7, safer than 3% of land cells; days a year above thirty-five °C 186 days/year. Source: ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). 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.