Recent Reports and Resources

California

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/

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

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