Property Damage
Property damage refers to the destruction, harm, or loss incurred by physical structures, assets, or properties due to various climatic hazards and risks associated with weather patterns, changes, and extreme events. It encompasses the financial and physical impact on buildings, infrastructure, homes, businesses, and other assets caused by climate-related phenomena.
Climate risks include a wide range of natural disasters and environmental changes intensified or influenced by climate change:
1. Extreme Weather Events: Such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, storms, heatwaves, and heavy rainfall, which can cause damage to buildings, infrastructure, and agriculture.
2. Rising Sea Levels: Leading to coastal erosion, inundation of coastal areas, and damage to properties located in low-lying regions.
3. Temperature Changes: Extremes in temperatures affecting agriculture, infrastructure, and human health, leading to increased energy consumption or infrastructure failure.
4. Changes in Precipitation Patterns: Resulting in droughts or heavy rains, impacting agriculture, water resources, and infrastructure.
5. Melting Ice Caps and Glaciers: Contributing to changes in water availability, affecting ecosystems, and potentially leading to infrastructure damage.
Mitigating property damage from climate risks involves strategies such as improved urban planning, building resilient infrastructure, implementing better land-use policies, reinforcing structures against extreme weather events, and adopting sustainable practices to reduce vulnerability to climate-related hazards.
Drought Data Analysis
The Drought dataset encompasses occurrences of wildfires across the USA spanning from 2000 to 2023. The dataset includes information on the total count of deaths and the number of individuals affected, providing quantitative insights.
Sample Data
| Disaster Type | Disaster Subype | Location | Total Deaths | Total Affected |
| Drought | Drought | West and central states | 45 | 0 |
| Drought | Drought | Nationwide | 0 | 0 |
| Drought | Drought | Nation wide; Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon and Texas | 136 | 0 |
The US Drought monitor
The US Drought Monitor (USDM) is a comprehensive and collaborative effort by several federal agencies, including the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), among others. It provides up-to-date information and assessment of drought conditions across the United States.
Link for the US Drought Monitor Map (November 2023): https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspx
Dataset can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k1YhIULXMt4URSIpeJfgfRbiee_YA7oXfl2_s6xfnpk/edit?usp=drive_link
Deaths and Affected numbers on the basis of different Climatological disasters in USA from 2000-2023
The US Drought Monitor Map
Reference
1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/economic-damage-from-natural-disasters?time=earliest..2023