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Know the Natural Disaster Risks Where You Live, Work & Travel.
Every location faces different natural hazards. Understand the risks associated with your community, explore historical disasters, and make more informed decisions about the places that matter to you.
From wildfires and floods to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and extreme weather, DisasterAWARE helps you explore geographic disaster risk and understand the events that have shaped communities over time.
Whether you're buying a home, considering a move, evaluating a vacation destination, or simply curious about your neighborhood, better information can help you prepare for the unexpected.
Know your risks. Understand your surroundings. Make more informed decisions.
Understand the Hazards That Could Affect Your Community
Explore Natural Disaster Risks by Location
Not every community faces the same natural hazards.
Some locations are more exposed to wildfires, earthquakes, or flooding. Others may experience hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme temperatures, or severe winter storms.
DisasterAWARE helps you explore geographic disaster risk information for cities, states, and other supported locations.
Discover which hazards may be most relevant to an area and develop a better understanding of the natural disaster risks associated with where you live or plan to visit.
Learn from Historical Disasters
Past disasters can provide valuable context about the hazards affecting a community.
Explore historical events, including significant earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters.
Understand what has occurred in or around a location and how past events may inform preparedness.
Historical information can help reveal patterns and recurring threats, although past activity does not guarantee what will happen in the future.
Understand Geographic Exposure & Vulnerability
Natural disaster risk involves more than the likelihood of a hazard occurring.
Geography, surrounding infrastructure, population characteristics, and other environmental and community factors can influence how a location may be affected.
DisasterAWARE brings together geographic hazard information and available exposure and vulnerability data to help users explore broader risk conditions.
Use these insights to better understand the factors that may contribute to disaster risk in different communities.
Connect Long-Term Risk with Current Events
Knowing the risks associated with a location is an important starting point. Staying informed about active events adds another layer of awareness.
Explore DisasterAWARE's live hazard map to see developing natural disasters and severe weather around the world.
For locations you care about, use available AWARE monitoring services to receive email intelligence about warnings, observed conditions, severity, and reported impacts.
Understand both the long-term hazards associated with a place and the events unfolding today.
Why Disasteraware Is Different
More Than a Risk Score. A Broader Understanding of Your Community.
Multiple Natural Hazards in One Place
Explore risks associated with earthquakes, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, severe storms, extreme temperatures, and other supported natural hazards.
Location-Based Risk Intelligence
Understand how geographic risk conditions differ across cities, states, and other supported locations.
Historical Disaster Context
Explore past natural disasters to better understand recurring threats and significant events affecting a region.
Geographic Exposure & Vulnerability
Consider available information about population, infrastructure, vulnerability, and other geographic factors that can influence disaster consequences.
Connect Risk with Active Disasters
Move from exploring long-term risk to viewing current disasters and severe weather affecting your area.
Accessible for Everyday Decisions
Explore disaster information without requiring specialized knowledge of meteorology, emergency management, or geographic information systems.
Built on Decades of Disaster Expertise
DisasterAWARE technology is rooted in the Pacific Disaster Center's longstanding work in disaster risk reduction, applied science, and global hazard intelligence.
Featured Experience
From "What Are My Risks?" to "How Should I Prepare?"
Understanding local disaster risk can help you make more informed decisions about where to live, what to prepare for, and which hazards deserve your attention.
Explore — Choose a Location
Start with a city, state, or other supported geographic area.
Explore available disaster risk information and learn about the hazards associated with that location.
Understand — Discover the Most Relevant Hazards
Review geographic risk information for different natural disasters.
Understand which hazards may deserve closer attention and how risk conditions compare across locations.
Learn — Explore Historical Events
Review available historical disaster information to understand what has happened in the surrounding area.
Use past events to put geographic risk information into context.
Prepare — Turn Awareness into Action
Use what you've learned to inform household emergency planning, homebuying research, travel decisions, and conversations about insurance or property preparedness.
For ongoing awareness, explore DisasterAWARE's location-based email monitoring services.
Featured Capability: Explore & Compare Local Disaster Risks
Every Location Has a Different Risk Profile.
Imagine you're considering moving to a new community.
You may already be researching schools, housing costs, neighborhoods, and local amenities.
But what about natural disasters?
Understand the Local Hazard Profile
Explore available geographic risk information for wildfires, flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural hazards.
Compare Different Locations
Review risk information across supported cities or states to better understand how their hazard profiles differ.
Explore Historical Disasters
Learn about significant past events and recurring hazards affecting the surrounding region.
Make More Informed Decisions
Use disaster risk information alongside official hazard maps, property inspections, insurance research, and local emergency management guidance.
Built On Trusted Disaster Intelligence
Global Disaster Expertise. Local Risk Awareness.
DisasterAWARE technology is rooted in decades of applied science and disaster management expertise developed through the Pacific Disaster Center.
PDC's work in disaster risk reduction, hazard monitoring, geographic analysis, and exposure assessment provides a foundation for understanding how natural disasters may affect communities.
DisasterAWARE makes selected geographic risk and disaster intelligence resources accessible to individuals and families.
Understand the Hazards
Explore information about natural disasters that may affect a location, including geographic hazard risk and historical activity.
Understand the Geography
Consider available exposure and vulnerability information that helps explain why different communities may experience different disaster consequences.
Understand the History
Learn from past disasters and significant events to put local risk conditions into context.
Understand What's Happening Today
Connect longer-term risk awareness with active disaster monitoring and available location-based email services.
Nine Ways Disasteraware Helps You Understand Local Disaster Risk
Better Information for the Places and Decisions That Matter.
Understand Risks Around Your Home
Explore the natural hazards associated with your community and identify threats worth preparing for.
Research Before Buying a Home
Review geographic disaster risk and historical events before purchasing a property, alongside official parcel-level maps, inspections, and insurance research.
Compare Communities Before Moving
Explore how natural disaster risk profiles differ across cities and states when considering a relocation.
Learn About Wildfire Risk
Understand geographic wildfire risk, historical wildfire activity, and why some communities face greater exposure.
Explore Flood & Coastal Hazards
Review available flood and coastal hazard information to better understand the risks associated with different locations.
Understand Earthquake & Tsunami Risk
Explore seismic hazard information, historical earthquakes, and relevant coastal tsunami threats to better understand the risks affecting a region.
Learn About Hurricanes, Tornadoes & Severe Storms
Explore geographic risk information and historical activity associated with tropical cyclones, tornadoes, damaging winds, and severe weather.
Research Vacation & Travel Destinations
Understand the natural hazards associated with places you plan to visit, particularly when traveling to unfamiliar regions.
Turn Risk Awareness into Ongoing Monitoring
Once you understand the hazards associated with a location, explore email-based monitoring services that help you stay informed about developing threats and observed events.
Related Tools & Monitoring Services
Explore Your Risks. Then Stay Informed.
Understanding the hazards associated with a location is the first step. DisasterAWARE provides additional tools and monitoring services to help you stay aware as conditions change.
Featured Risk & Mapping Tools
Local Disaster Risk Explorer
Explore geographic natural disaster risk information for cities, states, and other supported locations.
Learn about the hazards affecting different communities and use historical disaster context to better understand local risk.
Live Disaster & Hazard Map
Explore active natural disasters and severe weather events on an interactive global map.
See developing hazards, geographic event information, and other available disaster intelligence.
Personalized Email Monitoring
FamilyAWARE — Monitor the Places Where Loved Ones Live
Stay informed about natural disasters and severe weather affecting your family members' important locations.
Receive personalized email intelligence about developing threats, observed conditions, and available reported impacts.
PropertyAWARE — Monitor Homes & Other Properties
Follow natural disasters and severe weather affecting homes, vacation properties, rental units, buildings, and other important fixed locations.
Go beyond warnings with available observed hazard information, severity, and reported impacts.
Hazard-Specific Monitoring
TornadoAWARE
Monitor tornado and severe thunderstorm activity near selected locations, including warnings, observed tornado information, and historical context.
HailAWARE
Follow hail threats, observed hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, and available reports of damage near important places.
FloodAWARE
Monitor flood threats, available flood extent observations, and reported impacts affecting selected locations.
FireAWARE
Follow wildfire activity, dangerous fire weather, evolving fire perimeters, and available reported impacts.
HurricaneAWARE
Stay informed about developing tropical cyclones, forecasts, warnings, observed storm conditions, and reported impacts.
EarthquakeAWARE
Monitor significant earthquakes, shaking intensity, related tsunami alerts and observations, and available impact information.
WinterStormAWARE
Follow winter storms, snow, freezing rain, extreme cold, and available observed winter conditions, including developing ice accumulation and hazardous surface intelligence capabilities.
Every Place Has Risks. Understanding Them Is the First Step.
Whether you're researching a new home, considering a move, or simply learning more about your community, DisasterAWARE helps you explore geographic disaster risks, historical events, and the natural hazards that matter most.
Start by exploring the risks associated with your location, then use our live disaster map and available monitoring services to stay informed as conditions change.