Penn Hills compared with all land on Earth
The area around Penn Hills scores 45 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 45% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat56temperature
- Flood8rivers
- Wind9storms
- Earthquake64quakes
- Wildfire86fires
- Climate velocity45warming
- Air71pollution
- Water60scarcity
- Coast54sea-rise
- Ground23landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 30 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 44.7; its strongest pillar is wildfire at 85.6 and its weakest is flood at 7.5. Flood. Flood pillar 7.5, safer than 8% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 2.9 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Tornado. Wind pillar 8.7, safer than 9% of land cells; tornado touchdowns nearby 12.9 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 8.7, safer than 9% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 1.6 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 63.5, safer than 27% of land cells and level with 73%; 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 0.00033 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). Air quality. Air quality pillar 70.8, safer than 71% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 8.1 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Coverage: Every pillar has data for this cell. 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.