Los Angeles, CA · the CityFunIndex
Disaster risk in Los Angeles
Los Angeles ranks T#131 of 134 US cities for low disaster risk, with a resilience score of 8 — Quiet. That puts it in the 3rd percentile nationally and T#16 of 18 in California.
- resilience score
- 8
- Quiet
- National rank
- T#131 of 134
- In California
- T#16 of 18
- Percentile
- 3rd
The typical city scores 50 for low disaster risk; Los Angeles sits 42 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.
Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →
Ranked around Los Angeles
- T#129 Houston, TX 9
- T#129 Riverside, CA 9
- T#131 Los Angeles, CA — this page 8
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Top US cities for low disaster risk
More about Los Angeles
Los Angeles scores 38 overall (Some Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: