Search for how disaster-prone your home is:
Of course, they missed a huge one, which is: drinking water supply.
My home will burn in a wildfire within 30 years.
I think that is very conservative, but I’m sure they are trying.
My house is most at risk from heatwaves, which I could’ve told these guys after the last couple summers.
Minimal risk of flood or fire, though they neglected to mention the volcano that’s eventually going to wreck us with 40-foot-tall lahars flowing at highway speed.
8 on the Severe Heat Factor scale, 1 for flood (we’re at 218’ elevation) and 2 for fire. But I’ll be dead before 30 years, I’m sure.
That site is very far from “how disaster prone your home is”. it’s explicitly about how much you’re at increasing risk from heat, fire, or flood. Nothing more.
Those certainly are risks. But they’re far from the only ones. And the site’s focus on risk change rather than absolute risk is useful from a planning perspective but isn’t addressing what the OP said.
Note I’m not nay-saying the info the site presents. Just pointing out the labeling here doesn’t match the data there.
Living as I do a couple blocks from the Atlantic ocean, I thought it was funny they tagged my zip code as at danger for extreme deadly heat. If the ocean heated up 10 or 20C I’d certainly agree. But as it is, that ginormous heat sink right there pretty well ensures it never gets very hot here. Even considering the “heat index” combo of temperature and humidity, it never gets all that bad. The worst predictions about AGW, which I believe, aren’t nearly that dire on a scale of centuries, much less the mere decades the site addresses.
For damn sure my address is far more prone to being blown away in a hurricane or flooded by storm surge atop a slowly rising sea level than it is to become unlivably hot.
For more on unlivably hot, which is certainly a real emerging near-term risk in some parts of the world read this:
The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance | Science Advances
I totally agree with you.
Central NJ at high risk of heat? So what do they have to say about places like Florida and Arizona?
Hurricanes are the real risk, as far as I’m concerned.
Looks like I live in a good spot.
My zip code is in the greater Miami area. They say the risk of extreme heat is huge. In other more inland areas of Florida I’d certainly agree that could happen on their timescale. But IMO that’ll be long after, e.g. Arizona is all but unlivable.
Hah! So then why are they telling me that summertime is hot in New Jersey? I think they need to recalibrate their sense of “hot”
What a silly website.
2 for heat, 1 each for flood and wildfire. Guess I’ll stay put.
It says I have a moderate flood risk. I live in a very low flood risk zone. My bggest risk is earthquake, which isn’t a factor on this site.
99% chance of 5 feet (or more) of flooding within 30 years. I’m fucked.
The good news is I won’t be alive in 30 years.
Chicagoland is just above the upper edge of the extreme heat map, so we’re looking reasonably good. Texas, Florida, and the desert southwest are screwed, though.
We supposedly don’t have that much to worry about from “Hazardous Heat”.
On the other hand the New Madrid Seismic Zone is getting more active, so we could be swallowed up by a huge crevice in the earth any day now.
I am curious. But I’m concerned that typing my address in at this website will put my home in severe danger of being inundated with junk mail.
Nah. I found this site a couple of weeks ago and haven’t been spammed to death yet.
I just used the town I live in. Considering we had recent temps of over 110F recently, the determination that there’s a high risk of heat is a “No shit, Sherlock” moment.
Okay, I used my zip code.
They reported I face minor risks of flood, wildfire, and heat.
Flood 1
Fire 1
Heat 1
I guess I’m pretty safe.
Moderate heat factor risk. That’s it. I’ll just crank up the a/c.