New York

Comprehensive climate risk and disaster history profile

Billion-Dollar Events

$250.0B

Total Economic Impact

Counties

55.33

Avg Risk Score

Top Natural Hazards

Based on FEMA National Risk Index data across all 62 counties

Riverine Flooding

75.44 Avg Risk Score

Ice Storm

75.28 Avg Risk Score

Landslide

74.14 Avg Risk Score

Hurricane

68.1 Avg Risk Score

Cold Wave

66.55 Avg Risk Score

Lightning

61.91 Avg Risk Score

Coastal Flooding

61.37 Avg Risk Score

Earthquake

59.17 Avg Risk Score

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

severe-storm 27 events

$41.5B

winter-storm 12 events

$24.9B

tropical-cyclone 9 events

$175.0B

flooding 3 events

$5.0B

drought 1 events

$3.5B

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	Kings	98.12	Relatively High	88.7%
2	Queens	97.39	Relatively High	80.2%
3	Suffolk	97.14	Relatively High	26.0%
4	Nassau	96.66	Relatively High	27.8%
5	Bronx	96.31	Relatively High	99.7%
6	New York	96.18	Relatively High	72.8%
7	Westchester	94.3	Relatively Moderate	66.8%
8	Richmond	91.22	Relatively Moderate	59.6%
9	Erie	85.36	Relatively Moderate	49.1%
10	Orange	85.21	Relatively Moderate	73.0%