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[somersault72]

Yes, on Edge

My county has a low risk, the only thing that wasn't low or very low was inland flooding (our town is on a river and has flooded, but we live on a giant hill so it has not impacted us).

[ellipses84]

[mention]jlt19 [/mention] Nobody really thinks of it because earthquakes are pretty uncommon there, but there’s a significant seismic zone running through the Midwest. Luckily, structural building codes have accounted for it for a while so newer larger buildings are pretty safe but if there were a big quake there would probably be a lot of damage from older buildings. Like in early 2000’s Seattle, a lot of the old brick buildings were really damaged because they hadn’t had an earthquake that big in a long time.

Definitely look at where your home is in relation to the latest flood plain maps.

[lust2hart]

I'm using Chrome on my laptop. I've been blocked partway through:




ETA that when I go close out the window and click on the gift link again in the OP, I'm blocked right away.

[mrsslocombe]

I had to click twice-first time it told me to create an account. Second click it opened fine.

I checked my current county (Kings/Brooklyn) and my parent's county and In-laws county in PA.

Brooklyn-low risk overall, with high risk for coastal flooding

Parent's County-low risk overall, high risk for inland flooding (there was a famous flood in the 1970s that did massive damage, and their town got 17 inches of rain in an hour in recent history).

In-laws county-low risk overall, medium risk for inland flooding.

What strikes me is that doing it by county...IDK how effective that is as an education tool. Here in Brooklyn I live on top of a hill, about a mile from the coast. We're not going to have coastal flooding. Also the heat risk says "very low" but the death rate here in the city during a heat wave is higher than in the suburbs and I imagine that is only going to get worse.

[EvieEthelGarland]

I can open it but I'm a subscriber.

My county is very low, with inland flooding being the biggest risk. It has been a while since the rivers near me (like 10 miles minimum) we flooded. Earthquakes are the big risk here and after seeing what my coworkers in Tampa when through this month, we will be refreshing our emergency supplies.

I grew up in San Diego and went to college in NorCal. Suburban communities in both have been destroyed by wildfires in the past 10 years. It's beautiful and I loved living there, but I do feel safer where I am now.

[scm1011]

My country says low, but its a huge county and I'm on the far eastern border of it close to the coast. The neighboring county (that contains Boston) is high risk.

[picksthemusic]

My county is low.

We have the threat of Tahoma (Mt. Rainier) blowing, the Juan de Fuca plate causing a catastrophic earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and wildfires mostly.

[pixy0stix]

Thanks all for participating. I'm not sure it told us much other than to try twice to see if it opens.

[EvieEthelGarland]

This FEMA map was linked in the article and it includes risks beyond climate change.  I'm not particularly worried about avalanche in my Seattle suburb, but despite seeing volcanoes everyday, I forget about their risk. 

Thought I'd highlight it here for those that didn't get to the end of the WaPo article. 

[mrsukyankee]

Also a subscriber so it worked. Where I grew up and my dad/brother live (NEPA) is very low risk and my mom lives in a low risk area, though drought is medium risk (NM).

[Nonny]

I'm a WaPost subscriber, but I use the app on my iphone, and I'm not signed in right now on the browser. The link worked the first time using the Edge browser app (it had a sign in link in the corner, not my username).

I looked up my old home county and I also think it's underestimating the risk for heat, fires, and drought. It lists the risks as medium, but I'm pretty sure either NYT or WaPo did an entire article (last summer?) about people in a small town in that county literally running out of water and having to drive to a nearby town to fill up containers to bring home.

[lilac05]

I can see it.

We’re low risk where I am. Come move to a blue dot in Iowa so we can get this state back on track! We used to be a good place to live, but have obviously taken a VERY wrong turn recently. We can return to decency.

[AdaraMarie]

I can read this one fine. I had to enter an email to read the other one. But it wirked when I did.

My county says low risk overall but medium for drought and fire. I don't know if it is too accurate - the things that feel more real to me are hail and tornados which are not in the little chart.

[heygrey]

Ad me to the skeptics.

I tried Okanogan Co. Washington as it's the closest US county to me and we have very similar environments. It lists the drought and wildfire at medium and heat at low. I'm scratching my head at that. When northern Washington is regularly sustaining high 90s with peaks in the 100s, I wouldn't call that low. And drought and wildfire aren't a matter of if, but when, every single year. We frequently have wildfires that start one side of the border and jump across so my local Canadian news is always monitoring and reporting on wildfires in Ok. Co. 

It does seem accurate for my parents' county in PA. They have localized flooding every so often, but they are spared from almost everything else. 

(Yes, I could access the article using Safari on my laptop.)