Northampton compared with all land on Earth
The area around Northampton scores 49 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 49% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat69temperature
- Flood49rivers
- Wind19storms
- Earthquake59quakes
- Wildfire52fires
- Climate velocity23warming
- Air69pollution
- Water26scarcity
- Coast—sea-rise
- Ground55landslides
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 48.7; its strongest pillar is air quality at 69.2 and its weakest is wind at 19.2. Flood. Flood pillar 49.1, safer than 33% of land cells and level with 32%; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0.057 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Wind. Wind pillar 19.2, safer than 18% of land cells and level with 2%; tropical storm passes nearby 0.16 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). 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). Air quality. Air quality pillar 69.2, safer than 69% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 8.5 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Coverage: No coast data exists for this cell, so it is left out of the combined score and the remaining pillar weights are renormalized. 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.