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Neighborhood Safety Explorer

Search, filter, and sort all 337 cities we track by natural-hazard risk and reported violent crime rate.

These are two separate metrics from two separate federal sources — we don't blend them into one score. Natural Hazard Risk comes from FEMA's National Risk Index, a county-level composite of 18 hazard types (flood, wildfire, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, and more); it says nothing about crime. Violent Crime Rate comes from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting / NIBRS program — reported murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault per 100,000 residents, for each city's primary law-enforcement agency's latest fully-reported calendar year; it says nothing about natural-hazard exposure. Both have coverage gaps: a city shows "Not available" for a metric when FEMA's county-level data doesn't cleanly map to the city, or when no single police department could be matched to the city, or none reported a full year of data to the FBI. A missing value is not a zero — it means the data isn't there, not that the risk is absent.