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US Cities With the Highest Natural Disaster Risk

Among larger US cities (population 50,000+), these face the highest overall natural disaster risk according to FEMA's National Risk Index. City scores inherit county-level FEMA data. Click any city for its full hazard breakdown and local factors.

# City Overall risk
1 Cypress 8.7
2 Houston 8.7
3 Spring 8.7
4 Humble 8.7
5 Tomball 8.7
6 Baytown 8.7
7 Parkville 8.3
8 Owings Mills 8.3
9 Dundalk 8.3
10 Fort Washington 8.3
11 Upper Marlboro 8.3
12 Mobile 8.3
13 Catonsville 8.3
14 Hyattsville 8.3
15 Edinburg 8.2
16 Pharr 8.2
17 Mission 8.2
18 Mcallen 8.2
19 Piscataway 8.2
20 Perth Amboy 8.2
21 New Brunswick 8.2
22 Bensalem 8.2
23 Monroe Township 8.2
24 Morrisville 8.2
25 Donna 8.2
26 Philadelphia 8.1
27 Yonkers 8.1
28 Lancaster 8.1
29 Broken Arrow 8.1
30 Corpus Christi 8.1
31 Owasso 8.1
32 Lakewood 8.0
33 Chicago 8.0
34 San Antonio 8.0
35 Brownsville 8.0
36 Cicero 8.0
37 Mansfield 8.0
38 Fort Worth 8.0
39 Keller 8.0
40 Monroe 8.0
41 Toms River 8.0
42 Berwyn 8.0
43 Converse 8.0
44 Des Plaines 8.0
45 Jackson 8.0
46 Edmond 8.0
47 Oak Lawn 8.0
48 Mount Prospect 8.0
49 Newburgh 8.0
50 Arlington 8.0

Source: FEMA National Risk Index. Scores normalized 1–10. City scores inherit county-level FEMA data. For informational purposes only.

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