Las Vegas, NV · the CityFunIndex

Disaster risk in Las Vegas

Las Vegas ranks T#106 of 134 US cities for low disaster risk, with a resilience score of 20Quiet. That puts it in the 22nd percentile nationally and T#2 of 4 in Nevada.

resilience score
20
Quiet
National rank
T#106 of 134
In Nevada
T#2 of 4
Percentile
22nd

The typical city scores 50 for low disaster risk; Las Vegas sits 30 points below the median.

How disaster risk is measured

Exposure to natural hazards and severe events.

The resilience score is the flip side of our disaster risk measure — 100 minus the raw disaster risk score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data source: FEMA National Risk Index.

Ranked around Las Vegas

  1. T#103 San Antonio, TX 23
  2. #105 San Francisco, CA 22
  3. T#106 Las Vegas, NV — this page 20
  4. #109 Philadelphia, PA 19
  5. T#110 Hialeah, FL 18

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Top US cities for low disaster risk

  1. #1 Stowe, VT 100
  2. #2 Telluride, CO 99
  3. T#3 Aspen, CO 98
  4. T#3 Virginia Beach, VA 98
  5. #5 Park City, UT 97

More about Las Vegas

Las Vegas scores 35 overall (Some Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: