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Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. (carbonplan.org)

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[–] Midnight@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

These maps never include Alaska or Hawaii despite the myriad risks in those places.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 2 points 9 months ago

The USGS hydrology data in them is lot worse than the lower 48, which makes it a lot harder to do. The whole Aleutian Islands chain is treated as a single hydrological unit for example.

The fire models are also specific to plant community, which means they wont apply to a lot of the situations in those states.

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