San Jose compared with all land on Earth
The area around San Jose scores 20 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 20% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat10temperature
- Flood6rivers
- Wind0storms
- Earthquake1quakes
- Wildfire71fires
- Climate velocity59warming
- Air43pollution
- Water42scarcity
- Coast2sea-rise
- Ground2landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 12 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 20.4; its strongest pillar is wildfire at 70.9 and its weakest is wind at 0.0. Flood. Flood pillar 5.5, safer than 6% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 1.0 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Wind. Wind pillar 0.0, safer than 0% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 14.6 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 0.6, safer than 1% of land cells; large earthquakes nearby since the start of the century before last 12.7 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 70.9, safer than 71% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0.0080 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 43.2, safer than 43% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 14.7 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Coverage: Tornado records cover the United States only, so this area has no tornado reading: a gap in the record, not a measured zero. 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.