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What's at risk?

The Office of Risk and Resilience works to expand our understanding of who, and what, is at risk from the natural hazards USGS studies. To do this, we use geospatial analysis to identify where people, infrastructure, natural and cultural resources may be exposed to these hazards.

National Hazards Exposure

Visualizing and quantifying hazard exposure on a national scale:​

  • Allows USGS and its partners to provide consistent hazard messaging in national discussions​
  • Informs national and regional planning efforts​
  • Supports State, Tribal, Territorial, and Federal efforts to target hazard-related mapping, modeling, and monitoring to where they may be needed most.

Below are examples of national hazard exposure products. Along with these examples, you can also access the GIS layers we used for these analyses.
 

Sinkholes

  • Current and future sinkhole susceptibility in karst and pseudokarst areas of the conterminous United States, 2023 (publication | data release)

Landslides

  • U.S. landslide inventory and susceptibility, 2024 (interactive map | data release)
  • Demographic exposure (publication in process​)
  • Federal Highway exposure (publication in process​)

Tsunamis

  • Exposure analysis and data release coming spring 2025​

Earthquakes

  • 2023 U.S. 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model (data release)
  • Demographic exposure related to earthquakes​ (coming soon)

Volcanoes

  • National Volcano Threat Layer, 2024 (data release)
  • Volcano demographic exposure analysis (coming soon)

 

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