Living in the Danger Zone

In: Environment/weather Maps

7 Jun 2011

A map of every FEMA emergency since 1953 – you can also filter by disaster type.

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Here’s a slightly more detailed one, for 1964-2010.

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Update: and here’s a version from the NYT:

3 Responses to Living in the Danger Zone

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Raphael

June 7th, 2011 at 20:14

Combining “unclassified” with “none” is a fatal flaw. You’d think nothing ever bad happened in LA.

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Raphael

June 7th, 2011 at 20:17

It makes matters worse when one of the missing counties is also the single most populated county in the country.

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Andy Kriebel

June 9th, 2011 at 12:37

Dustin, you might like my take on this data using Tableau.

http://vizwiz.blogspot.com/2011/06/most-dangerous-states-if-you-dont-like.html

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