Ottawa compared with all land on Earth
The area around Ottawa scores 45 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 45% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat60temperature
- Flood10rivers
- Wind15storms
- Earthquake22quakes
- Wildfire86fires
- Climate velocity37warming
- Air72pollution
- Water91scarcity
- Coast54sea-rise
- Ground54landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 31 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 44.9; its strongest pillar is water stress at 90.7 and its weakest is flood at 9.9. Flood. Flood pillar 9.9, safer than 10% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 2.4 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Hurricane. Wind pillar 15.1, safer than 15% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 0.66 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 21.8, safer than 22% 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 85.6, safer than 86% 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). Water stress. Water stress pillar 90.7, safer than 91% of land cells; water stress 0 score. Source: WRI Aqueduct 4.0 (vintage: Aqueduct 4.0, July 2023). 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.