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This site recently made headlines with stories ranking Los Angeles as one of the most dangerous counties in the United States.
Lost in those headlines is a super cool government tool for interested risk management and insurance individuals. You can drill down by county:
The National Risk Index by United States County.
FYI its a fairly slow site, so click on it and consider getting a cup of coffee.
According to AP News: "the rankings may seem “counterintuitive,” the degree of risk isn’t just how often a type of natural disaster strikes a place, but how bad the toll would be, according to FEMA’s Mike Grim....
Those seeming oddities occur because FEMA’s index scores how often disasters strike, how many people and how much property are in harm’s way, how vulnerable the population is socially and how well the area is able to bounce back. And that results in a high risk assessment for big cities with lots of poor people and expensive property that are ill-prepared to be hit by once-in-a-generation disasters."
Lost in those headlines is a super cool government tool for interested risk management and insurance individuals. You can drill down by county:
The National Risk Index by United States County.
FYI its a fairly slow site, so click on it and consider getting a cup of coffee.
According to AP News: "the rankings may seem “counterintuitive,” the degree of risk isn’t just how often a type of natural disaster strikes a place, but how bad the toll would be, according to FEMA’s Mike Grim....
Those seeming oddities occur because FEMA’s index scores how often disasters strike, how many people and how much property are in harm’s way, how vulnerable the population is socially and how well the area is able to bounce back. And that results in a high risk assessment for big cities with lots of poor people and expensive property that are ill-prepared to be hit by once-in-a-generation disasters."
