Payson compared with all land on Earth
The area around Payson scores 38 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 38% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat33temperature
- Flood42rivers
- Wind25storms
- Earthquake25quakes
- Wildfire13fires
- Climate velocity49warming
- Air92pollution
- Water50scarcity
- Coast54sea-rise
- Ground13landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 34 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 38.3; its strongest pillar is air quality at 91.7 and its weakest is ground at 13.0. Flood. Flood pillar 42.0, safer than 42% of land cells; 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 25.4, safer than 25% of land cells; tornado touchdowns nearby 0.53 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 25.4, safer than 25% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 0 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 25.1, safer than 25% of land cells and level with 1%; 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 91.7, safer than 92% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 4.6 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Ground. Ground pillar 13.0, safer than 13% of land cells; landslide susceptibility class 3.2 class (1–5). Source: NASA landslide susceptibility (vintage: 2023 update); NOAA NCEI volcanoes (vintage: NCEI HazEL, accessed 2026). Coverage: Every pillar has data for this cell. 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.