Phoenix compared with all land on Earth
The area around Phoenix scores 35 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 35% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat10temperature
- Flood12rivers
- Wind21storms
- Earthquake64quakes
- Wildfire29fires
- Climate velocity48warming
- Air62pollution
- Water35scarcity
- Coast54sea-rise
- Ground72landslides
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 34.9; its strongest pillar is ground at 72.1 and its weakest is heat at 9.7. Flood. Flood pillar 11.8, safer than 12% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 2.8 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Tornado. Wind pillar 20.8, safer than 21% of land cells; tornado touchdowns nearby 7.2 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 20.8, safer than 21% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 0.16 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). Ground. Ground pillar 72.1, safer than 72% of land cells; landslide susceptibility class 1.1 class (1–5). Source: NASA landslide susceptibility (vintage: 2023 update); NOAA NCEI volcanoes (vintage: NCEI HazEL, accessed 2026). Heat. Heat pillar 9.7, safer than 10% of land cells; days a year above thirty-five °C 141 days/year. Source: ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). 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.