Palmdale compared with all land on Earth
The area around Palmdale scores 40 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 40% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat39temperature
- Flood56rivers
- Wind31storms
- Earthquake17quakes
- Wildfire26fires
- Climate velocity56warming
- Air72pollution
- Water34scarcity
- Coast—sea-rise
- Ground36landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 39 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 40.3; its strongest pillar is air quality at 71.7 and its weakest is earthquake at 16.8. Flood. Flood pillar 56.1, safer than 32% 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). Tornado. Wind pillar 30.9, safer than 30% of land cells and level with 2%; tornado touchdowns nearby 2.5 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 30.9, safer than 30% of land cells and level with 2%; tropical storm passes nearby 0.16 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 16.8, safer than 5% of land cells and level with 23%; large earthquakes nearby since the start of the century before last 4.0 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 71.7, safer than 72% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 8.0 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. 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.