Recent Reports and Resources

California

UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation report, How have the LA Fires affected water systems in LA County? An Early Overview, May 2025,  https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/How-have-the-LA-Fires-affected-water-systems-in-LA-County-FINAL.pdf.pdf

The UC Davis Health Environmental Health Sciences Center has created an interactive wildfire map to "to see how long people went without essentials after California's historic wildfires in 2017-2019."   Access it here: https://environmentalhealth.ucdavis.edu/research/california-wildfires/statewide-health-survey/data-map

The Public Policy Institute of California has authored a fact sheet on flooding in California (February 2024) that can be found here: https://www.ppic.org/publication/floods-in-california/

State of California. Protection Californians from Extreme Heat: A State Action Plan to Build Community Resilience. April 2022. https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Climate-Resilience/2022-Final-Extreme-Heat-Action-Plan.pdf

California Air Resources Board, Camp Fire Air Quality Data Analysis, https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/Camp_Fire_report_July2021.pdf

Butte County District Attorney. The Camp Fire Public Report: A Summary of the Camp Fire Investigation, June 16, 2020.  https://www.buttecounty.net/DocumentCenter/View/1881/Camp-Fire-Public-Report---Summary-of-the-Camp-Fire-Investigation-PDF

U.S.

In September 2023, the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission issued its final report, which 148 recommendations to Congress.  Learn about and access the report here: https://www.usda.gov/topics/disaster-resource-center/wildland-fire/commission

The Democratic Staff of the U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee has issues a report estimating that flooding costs the U.S. between $179.9 and $479.0 per year.  See more here: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/6/flooding-costs-the-u-s-between-179-8-and-496-0-billion-each-year 

The Rand Corporation has recently published a survey of threats to critical infrastructure.  Learn about the survey here: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2397-2.html

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index for Natural Hazards provides an interactive map showing communities at risk.  It can be found here: https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/national-risk-index

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information tracks weather and climate disasters.  To learn more, click here: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a Heat and Health Tracker, which tracks emergency room visits for heat-related illness: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications/heatTracker/

International

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Co-Chair's Summary of the 8th Session of the Platform, June 2-6, 2025, https://globalplatform.undrr.org/media/107578/download?startDownload=20250619

UN Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) maintains a "global risk data collection": https://www.preventionweb.net/understanding-disaster-risk/disaster-losses-and-statistics/global-risk-data-sets

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is a major international agreeement on how nations should take action to reduce disaster risks.   Learn more  about the Framework here: https://www.undrr.org/implementing-sendai-framework/what-sendai-framework

The Global Flood Database provides the "World's Largest Collection of Floodmaps": https://global-flood-database.cloudtostreet.ai/#interactive-map

The Global Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction has issued their 2023 Annual Report: https://www.gfdrr.org/en/publication/gfdrr-annual-report-2023

The City Resilience Program of the Global Fund for Disasster Risk Reduction has an extensive video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlxZ8h0dxpsAHTi9wQ2z-63y9U8UD0fDY