New Jersey

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$254.2B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

90.15

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 21 counties

Strong Wind

97.3 Avg Risk Score

Heat Wave

92.05 Avg Risk Score

Riverine Flooding

91.69 Avg Risk Score

Hurricane

89.36 Avg Risk Score

Coastal Flooding

88.65 Avg Risk Score

Winter Weather

84.74 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

82.18 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

78.18 Avg Risk Score

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

severe-storm 13 events

$19.0B

winter-storm 10 events

$15.2B

tropical-cyclone 10 events

$201.8B

drought 3 events

$14.8B

flooding 2 events

$3.4B

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	Bergen	98.7	Relatively High	43.7%
2	Ocean	97.23	Relatively High	41.3%
3	Atlantic	96.95	Relatively High	85.3%
4	Monmouth	96.44	Relatively High	21.4%
5	Middlesex	95.86	Relatively High	66.5%
6	Hudson	95.39	Relatively Moderate	78.3%
7	Cape May	95.0	Relatively Moderate	35.4%
8	Somerset	93.41	Relatively Moderate	19.1%
9	Mercer	93.03	Relatively Moderate	74.5%
10	Burlington	92.97	Relatively Moderate	24.3%