Safest Cities from Natural Disasters
FEMA National Risk Index scores for the city's county combined with how often FEMA has declared disasters there over the past ten years.
75 cities ranked in the United States.
| Rank | City | Population | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virginia Beach, VA Virginia Beach city | 454,808 | 89.0 |
| 2 | Madison, WI Dane County | 285,300 | 88.1 |
| 3 | Boston, MA Suffolk County | 673,458 | 86.5 |
| 4 | Lincoln, NE Lancaster County | 300,619 | 86.3 |
| 5 | St. Paul, MN Ramsey County | 307,465 | 85.9 |
| 6 | Baltimore, MD Baltimore city | 568,271 | 83.6 |
| 7 | Denver, CO Denver County | 729,019 | 80.2 |
| 8 | Lexington-Fayette, KY Fayette County | 329,437 | 79.1 |
| 9 | Aurora, CO Arapahoe County | 403,130 | 79.0 |
| 10 | Albuquerque, NM Bernalillo County | 560,326 | 78.5 |
| 11 | Colorado Springs, CO El Paso County | 493,554 | 78.1 |
| 12 | Cleveland, OH Cuyahoga County | 365,379 | 77.0 |
| 13 | Cincinnati, OH Hamilton County | 314,915 | 76.9 |
| 14 | Wichita, KS Sedgwick County | 400,991 | 76.1 |
| 15 | Durham, NC Durham County | 301,870 | 75.7 |
| 16 | Corpus Christi, TX Nueces County | 317,317 | 70.9 |
| 17 | Kansas City, MO Jackson County | 516,032 | 70.6 |
| 18 | Pittsburgh, PA Allegheny County | 307,668 | 70.4 |
| 19 | Atlanta, GA Fulton County | 520,070 | 68.9 |
| 20 | Minneapolis, MN Hennepin County | 428,579 | 67.7 |
| 21 | Raleigh, NC Wake County | 499,825 | 67.4 |
| 22 | Greensboro, NC Guilford County | 307,381 | 67.4 |
| 23 | Jersey City, NJ Hudson County | 302,824 | 66.5 |
| 24 | Omaha, NE Douglas County | 489,265 | 64.4 |
| 25 | El Paso, TX El Paso County | 681,723 | 64.3 |
| 26 | Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee County | 563,531 | 64.1 |
| 27 | Columbus, OH Franklin County | 933,263 | 64.0 |
| 28 | Indianapolis, IN Marion County | 891,484 | 60.8 |
| 29 | Portland, OR Multnomah County | 635,749 | 59.0 |
| 30 | Newark, NJ Essex County | 317,303 | 57.7 |
| 31 | Anchorage, AK Anchorage Municipality | 289,600 | 57.1 |
| 32 | Charlotte, NC Mecklenburg County | 943,476 | 56.6 |
| 33 | Austin, TX Travis County | 993,588 | 54.8 |
| 34 | Nashville-Davidson, TN Davidson County | 704,963 | 54.4 |
| 35 | New Orleans, LA Orleans Parish | 362,701 | 53.9 |
| 36 | Tulsa, OK Tulsa County | 415,154 | 53.6 |
| 37 | Jacksonville, FL Duval County | 1,009,833 | 53.2 |
| 38 | Detroit, MI Wayne County | 645,705 | 52.6 |
| 39 | Louisville/Jefferson County, KY Jefferson County | 640,796 | 52.3 |
| 40 | Sacramento, CA Sacramento County | 535,798 | 49.7 |
| 41 | San Francisco, CA San Francisco County | 827,526 | 48.7 |
| 42 | Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma County | 712,919 | 48.1 |
| 43 | Plano, TX Collin County | 293,286 | 46.9 |
| 44 | Tucson, AZ Pima County | 554,013 | 45.1 |
| 45 | Stockton, CA San Joaquin County | 324,975 | 45.1 |
| 46 | Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia County | 1,573,916 | 42.5 |
| 47 | Seattle, WA King County | 780,995 | 38.7 |
| 48 | Fort Worth, TX Tarrant County | 1,008,106 | 38.5 |
| 49 | Arlington, TX Tarrant County | 403,672 | 38.5 |
| 50 | Oakland, CA Alameda County | 443,554 | 37.4 |