About HazardAware

Knowing about your current home’s risks can help you take steps to protect your family. This website can help you learn about natural hazards and how they might affect your home.

• Learn how your home’s construction affects its hazard risk.
• Learn about your neighborhood’s hazard history and how it might have affected your home.
• Learn about your home’s possible future risk.

Learn today about the many things you can do to make your current home more resilient and avoid financial costs for you and your family.

• Understand the variety of long-term options for upgrading your home.
• Understand short-term preparations you can make when a storm is coming.
• Understand how buying insurance can help you recover your costs, and what different insurance options you might have.
• Understand where to look for local hazard information.

Choosing the right home protects your family, belongings, and financial future. By making an informed home choice, and choosing a home that’s capable of withstanding hurricanes, floods, and more, you are making an investment in the safety of your family and their future. This website can be used as a resource to aid you in making that informed choice.

Every home is at risk from natural hazards that can create immense financial losses and stress. Consider the safety and security of your home prior to buying or renting–before it is too late. This website will help you:

• Understand what future hazard will cost you.
• Understand what makes a home hazard-resilient.
• Understand which neighborhoods are more hazard-resilient than others.

Learn today how to avoid the financial costs of hazards by finding the right home–a home that will keep you and your family safe.

• Avoid having to find a new home because you have been flooded out.
• Avoid having to rebuild your home because it did not withstand high winds.
• Avoid being displaced from your home due to damage to or complete loss of the roof.
• Avoid the trauma of seeing your family photos floating in the floodwaters.
• Avoid learning about the flood risk level of your home when it is already too late.

This website can help you make the case for natural hazard risk reduction in your community by accessing information on your community’s hazard burden and its resilience.

Each resident and every property in your community is at risk from natural hazard. Protect your residents and your tax base, ensuring the community’s safety and future. Build a plan for a future community that coexists with natural hazards, instead of being devastated by them.

• View what hazards have cost your area’s residents in the past.
• View what risks your area’s residents will continue to face in the future.

Learn today how to reduce those losses and how to make your community more hazard resilient.

• Understand what makes your community vulnerable.
• View which neighborhoods are more hazard resilient than others.
• View your community’s hazard hotspots.
• View which neighborhoods are in need of more hazard-resilient planning.

1. Every home is at risk from flooding right now.
2. Your flood risk is getting worse.
3. Damage to your property is likely to far exceed the insurance payout.
4. It is vastly cheaper to buy a disaster resilient home than to pay for remodeling and improvements after you suffer damage.
5. Few people have the financial resources to rebuild after a disaster.
6. Many of your neighbors may not return after a disaster.
7. There are few rental and affordable housing units available after a disaster.
8. Renters receive less federal help than homeowners.
9. Your neighborhood’s drainage infrastructure was built for yesterday’s needs and cannot handle today’s intense rainfall.
10. The vast majority of homes in existence today were built to outdated codes and standards.
11. Flood waters are extremely dangerous and can kill you or make you sick.
12. Fraudulent contractors will take advantage of your distress after a disaster.
13. Many local governments’ dependence on property tax revenue keeps building standards low and development in high-risk areas going.
14. Most states do not require the disclosure of risks from natural hazards, including past flood damage.
15. You will likely find out about the flood risk of your future home at the closing table unless your state has flood disclosure laws.
16. New development will likely increase your risk of flooding.
17. Living near coastal barriers and levees places you at high risk from catastrophic flooding.
18. Growth continues in areas of greatest risk from natural hazards.
19. Development in flood-prone areas endangers everyone’s lives downstream, not just immediate neighbors.