Compare anywhere on Earth.
Type a place. Terra shows how it ranks against all land on Earth for heat, flood, wind, earthquake, wildfire and five more hazards, today and under three climate paths to 2085.
The whole planet, one scale.
573,765 land cells, each about 10 km across, ranked against each other. A score of 70 means lower hazard than 70% of the land on Earth.
Today, 2050 and 2085.
Three climate paths from the NASA projections scientists use: a likely trajectory, a middle-high path, and a high-emissions stress test. Hazards the models do not project are held at today's values and say so.
Every number has a source.
NASA, NOAA, USGS, Copernicus and the World Resources Institute. Tap any score to see the measurement behind it. Where the data is thin, Terra says so.
Ten hazards, one score each
- Heat
- Flood
- Wind
- Earthquake
- Wildfire
- Climate velocity
- Air
- Water
- Coast
- Ground
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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The globe, search, today's overall score for any place, and a page for each of the world's 500 largest cities.
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The score for each of the ten hazards with the measurement behind it, 2050 and 2085 under three climate paths, side-by-side comparison of four places, a written brief for any place, the best-ranked places in any country, and a share card.
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Questions
Is this about my house?
No. Terra describes areas about 10 km across. It cannot tell one street from the next and is not a property assessment.
Does it tell me where to live?
No. It shows how places compare on natural hazard. The decision, and everything else that goes into it, is yours.
Where does the data come from?
Public scientific datasets, listed in full with their licences under Sources on the globe.
Why does my area show “no data” for something?
Because nobody measured it there, and Terra does not guess. Tornado records, for example, exist only for the United States.
How often does it change?
About once a year, when the underlying datasets are updated. Scores can move when that happens.
I think a score is wrong.
Tell us at the address on the corrections page. We check every report against the source data and publish what we change.
Refunds?
Yes, within 14 days, no questions. See refunds.