San Diego compared with all land on Earth

The area around San Diego scores 36 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 36% of the land on Earth.

Ten pillars (0–100)

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 36.4; its strongest pillar is air quality at 60.2 and its weakest is coast at 1.6. Flood. Flood pillar 49.1, safer than 49% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0.023 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Tornado. Wind pillar 22.4, safer than 22% of land cells; tornado touchdowns nearby 2.3 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 22.4, safer than 22% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 0.16 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 8.2, safer than 8% of land cells; 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 60.2, safer than 60% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 10.4 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Coast. Coast pillar 1.6, safer than 2% of land cells; five-hundred-year tsunami run-up on the nearest coast 7.4 m. Source: Global Tsunami Model (vintage: 2017, earthquake sources only). 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.

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