Wilmington compared with all land on Earth
The area around Wilmington scores 43 of 100 today: lower combined natural hazard than 43% of the land on Earth.
Ten pillars (0–100)
- Heat37temperature
- Flood15rivers
- Wind1storms
- Earthquake64quakes
- Wildfire72fires
- Climate velocity49warming
- Air76pollution
- Water67scarcity
- Coast6sea-rise
- Ground89landslides
SSP5-8.5 2085 stress test
Under the SSP5-8.5 stress test for 2085, the combined score is 33 of 100.
This cell's combined hazard score is 42.9; its strongest pillar is ground at 88.8 and its weakest is wind at 1.4. Flood. Flood pillar 15.0, safer than 15% of land cells; modelled hundred-year river flood depth 0.28 m. Source: WRI Aqueduct Floods (vintage: WRI Aqueduct Floods v2 (historical baseline, 100-year RP)); ERA5 (vintage: ERA5 reanalysis 1991-2020). Wind. Wind pillar 1.4, safer than 1% of land cells; tropical storm passes nearby 7.9 storms/decade. Source: IBTrACS (vintage: v04r01); NOAA Storm Prediction Center (vintage: 1950-2024). 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 71.9, safer than 72% of land cells; satellite fire detections 0.0066 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). Ground. Ground pillar 88.8, safer than 89% of land cells; landslide susceptibility class 1.0 class (1–5). Source: NASA landslide susceptibility (vintage: 2023 update); NOAA NCEI volcanoes (vintage: NCEI HazEL, accessed 2026). 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.