Santa Cruz compared with all land on Earth
The area around Santa Cruz scores 50 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 50% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat79temperature
- Flood47rivers
- Wind58storms
- Earthquake17quakes
- Wildfire57fires
- Climate velocity64warming
- Air81pollution
- Water49scarcity
- Coast1sea-rise
- Ground29landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 46 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 50.2; its strongest pillar is air quality at 80.5 and its weakest is coast at 1.2. Flood. Flood pillar 46.8, safer than 22% of land cells and level with 49%; 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 58.2, safer than 32% of land cells and level with 52%; tornado touchdowns nearby 2.3 touchdowns/decade. Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). Hurricane. Wind pillar 58.2, safer than 32% of land cells and level with 52%; tropical storm passes nearby 0 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01). Earthquake. Earthquake pillar 17.2, safer than 6% of land cells and level with 24%; large earthquakes nearby since the start of the century before last 1.6 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 80.5, safer than 80% of land cells; fine-particle air pollution 6.4 µg/m³. Source: Washington University SatPM2.5 (vintage: 2020-2024 annual mean). Coast. Coast pillar 1.2, safer than 1% of land cells; five-hundred-year tsunami run-up on the nearest coast 9.7 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, 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.