The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released an update to its Disaster and Risk Mapping Tool that now allows users to assess natural disaster risks at the community level.

NOAA'S Disaster and Risk Mapping Tool Now Provides Granular Detail on Natural Disaster Risk

The Disaster and Risk Mapping Tool (the Disaster Risk Tool) now enables local governments, community members, and companies to visualize and analyze their exposure and vulnerability to extreme weather and climate events by census tracts, which are small county subdivisions of about 4,000 residents. With this granular detail, the Disaster Risk Tool identifies communities with socioeconomic vulnerability and a high risk from natural disasters.