Natural disaster risk by state.
Middle FEMA National Risk Index score across each state's cities (county-level, 0–100, higher = more risk). FEMA, December 2025.
FEMA risk scoreunder 7575–8585–9292–9696+
Every state, ranked
FEMA risk score, highest first. Each value is the middle across the cities we list in that state, so states with few cities rest on few numbers.
- 1California100502 cities
- 2Arizona9968 cities
- 3Hawaii9934 cities
- 4Florida98342 cities
- 5Nevada9824 cities
- 6Washington98131 cities
- 7District of Columbia981 city
- 8Illinois97224 cities
- 9New York97202 cities
- 10Michigan97101 cities
- 11New Jersey96157 cities
- 12Texas96267 cities
- 13Delaware9511 cities
- 14Utah9566 cities
- 15Oregon9568 cities
- 16Louisiana9457 cities
- 17South Carolina9462 cities
- 18Rhode Island9411 cities
- 19Massachusetts9489 cities
- 20Pennsylvania9287 cities
- 21Maryland92138 cities
- 22Ohio91186 cities
- 23Colorado9170 cities
- 24Missouri9187 cities
- 25Alabama9070 cities
- 26Alaska897 cities
- 27Minnesota88101 cities
- 28North Carolina8796 cities
- 29Arkansas8639 cities
- 30Wisconsin8596 cities
- 31Mississippi8541 cities
- 32New Mexico8523 cities
- 33Georgia84113 cities
- 34Oklahoma8345 cities
- 35Virginia83129 cities
- 36Tennessee8165 cities
- 37Montana818 cities
- 38Indiana7985 cities
- 39New Hampshire7815 cities
- 40Maine7713 cities
- 41Kentucky7545 cities
- 42West Virginia7416 cities
- 43Idaho7225 cities
- 44Kansas7135 cities
- 45Iowa6942 cities
- 46Nebraska6717 cities
- 47Vermont644 cities
- 48South Dakota6213 cities
- 49North Dakota589 cities
- 50Wyoming5811 cities