ArticleEarth's future2021
Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Continental scale geographic analysis of hospital exposure to natural hazards in the Americas.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Economic damage from natural hazards and internal migration in the United States.Natural hazards (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Using Existing Indicators to Bridge the Exposure Data Gap: A Novel Natural Hazard Assessment.Sustainability · 2024Article
- Machine learning-enabled regional multi-hazards risk assessment considering social vulnerability.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Health disparities among older adults following tropical cyclone exposure in Florida.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires.PNAS nexus · 2023Article
- A 1.2 Billion Pixel Human-Labeled Dataset for Data-Driven Classification of Coastal Environments.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Gridded land use data for the conterminous United States 1940-2015.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Urban growth modelling and social vulnerability assessment for a hazardous Kathmandu Valley.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s.Science advances · 2022Article
- Creeping disaster along the U.S. coastline: Understanding exposure to sea level rise and hurricanes through historical development.PloS one · 2022Article
- Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States.Earth's future · 2021Article
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Abstract
Losses from natural hazards are escalating dramatically, with more properties and critical infrastructure affected each year. Although the magnitude, intensity, and/or frequency of certain hazards has increased, development contributes to this unsustainable trend, as disasters emerge when natural disturbances meet vulnerable assets and populations. To diagnose development patterns leading to increased exposure in the conterminous United States (CONUS), we identified earthquake, flood, hurricane, tornado, and wildfire hazard hotspots, and overlaid them with land use information from the Historical Settlement Data Compilation data set. Our results show that 57% of structures (homes, schools, hospitals, office buildings, etc.) are located in hazard hotspots, which represent only a third of CONUS area, and ∼1.5 million buildings lie in hotspots for two or more hazards. These critical levels of exposure are the legacy of decades of sustained growth and point to our inability, lack of knowledge, or unwillingness to limit development in hazardous zones. Development in these areas is still growing more rapidly than the baseline rates for the nation, portending larger future losses even if the effects of climate change are not considered.
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