Alabama

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$201.3B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

59.05

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 67 counties

Cold Wave

78.03 Avg Risk Score

Tornado

74.71 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

72.26 Avg Risk Score

Hurricane

70.37 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

69.75 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

65.52 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

60.18 Avg Risk Score

Drought

54.37 Avg Risk Score

Historical billion-dollar events by category (1980-2024)

severe-storm 48 events

$103.2B

tropical-cyclone 13 events

$72.4B

winter-storm 4 events

$6.5B

drought 3 events

$14.5B

freeze 2 events

$3.0B

flooding 1 events

$1.5B

How disaster frequency and costs have changed over time

Counties with the highest overall risk scores based on FEMA NRI

Rank	County	Risk Score	Risk Rating	SVI Percentile
1	Mobile	98.79	Relatively High	83.0%
2	Baldwin	97.71	Relatively High	34.9%
3	Jefferson	96.47	Relatively High	72.5%
4	Escambia	91.38	Relatively Moderate	84.7%
5	Madison	91.28	Relatively Moderate	35.1%
6	Houston	90.68	Relatively Moderate	71.8%
7	Coffee	89.09	Relatively Moderate	68.0%
8	Covington	88.71	Relatively Moderate	71.2%
9	Morgan	88.13	Relatively Moderate	67.9%
10	Shelby	87.4	Relatively Moderate	12.4%