HERA

Overview

❌ HERA Overview

The nation faces a wide array of natural hazards that threaten its safety, security, economic well-being, and natural resources. Understanding how communities may be specifically vulnerable to natural hazards enables elected officials, emergency and public works managers, business owners, and the general public to make better risk-management decisions.

The Hazard Exposure Reporting and Analytics (HERA) application was developed to provide users with insight on potential population, economic, land cover, and infrastructure vulnerability resulting from a given hazard. Interactive maps and graphics allow users to examine hazard exposure for individual communities, to compare the exposure of multiple communities, and to explore changes in community exposure given multiple hazard scenarios.

HERA focuses on California coastal communities and their varying exposure to flooding related to coastal storm and sea level rise scenarios generated by the USGS Coastal Storm Modeling Systems (CoSMoS) project. The USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and the USGS Western Geographic Science Center are working together to improve statewide awareness of the range in hazard exposures so that coastal communities are better prepared to deal with future threats. Below you will find resources for understanding the data, methods, and publications that were used for estimating community exposure to coastal hazards in California.

USGS Coastal Storm Modeling Systems (CoSMoS) project page
Please cite the data from this web application as:
Jones, J.M., Wood, N., Ng, P., Henry, K., Jones, J.L., Peters, J., Jamieson, M., 2016, Community Exposure in California to Coastal Flooding Hazards Enhanced by Climate Change, reference year 2010: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7PZ56ZD
Data and Methods

❌ Data and Methods
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Disclaimer

❌ Disclaimer

This interactive mapping tool, including its data and other information ("tool and data") are provided for informational purposes. The tool and data are not for the purpose of providing advice or guidance on issues or activities related to its content including, but not limited to, navigation, investment, development or permitting. The tool and data are based on model simulations, which are subject to revision and do not take into account many variables that could have substantial effects on flood extent and depth. Real world results will differ from results of the tool and data. Commercial use of this tool and data are prohibited.

The tool and data are provided "as is" without any representations or warranties as to their accuracy, completeness, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk associated with the results and performance of the tool and data is assumed by the user. The U.S. Geological Survey, and all their partners shall not be responsible or liable to you for any loss or damage of any sort incurred in connection with your use of the tool and data.

HERA is not optimized to function on small screens such as mobile (phone) devices. Please use a device with a minimum resolution of 1024x768.

If using a tablet, please rotate your device to landscape mode.

Hazard

Coastal Storm

Sea Level Rise (cm)

Location

Exposure

Demographics

Economics

Land Cover

Infrastructure

Reporting & Analytics