FEMA National Risk Index

Author

Manjul Balayar

Published

July 11, 2024

Brief Description

The FEMA National Risk Index Dataset provides information on the expected annual losses from various natural disasters across the United States. It is designed to help communities understand their risk levels and make informed decisions about mitigation and preparedness.

Source: FEMA NRI

Measures

Essentially, we kept the total annual loss for each type of disaster up until 2020. The annual loss was simply a cumulative sum of all the other loss types and was already provided by the dataset. Therefore, not much was changed in this dataset.

  1. Flood_Expected_Annual_Loss
  2. Heat_Wave_Expected_Annual_Loss
  3. Hail_Expected_Annual_Loss
  4. Strong_Wind_Expected_Annual_Loss
  5. Tornado_Expected_Annual_Loss
  6. Winter_Weather_Expected_Annual_Loss
  7. Ice_Storm_Expected_Annual_Loss