Climate Change Predicts Extreme Events

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A New Interactive Tool Models Natural Hazards Fueled by Climate Change

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Project builds off of the Natural Hazards Index v2.0, a present-day look at 14 different hazard types.

Project identifies significant future climate changedriven hazards, including an escalating wildfire threat to San Diego and Washington State’s Yakima County .

The project identifies another notable and alarming red flag: an increased tornado risk for the East Coast .

The U.S. Natural Hazards Index v2.0 update and better visualize natural hazard data for 14 hazard types.

The data is the third hazards data product based off a beta version of the Natural Hazard Index.

The team has made the data open-source and available to everyone to position the research to do the most good.

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