Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (1 m)
WorldPhysical EnvironmentSocial / HealthAreas vulnerable to a 1-meter rise in sea level
ETOPO1A map shows global sea-level rise vulnerability (1 meter). The highest vulnerability areas, marked in blue, are along coastlines, notably in the United States, Europe, parts of Asia, and Australia.
Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (1 m) | Commercial gardening | Dairy | Grain | Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant | Little or no agriculture | Livestock Ranching | Mediterranean | Mixed crop and livestock | Plantation | |
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Alaska | 0.230% | 0.159% | ||||||||
Arizona | 11.4% | 12.2% | 74.4% | 0.405% | 0.105% | |||||
Utah | 2.61% | 10.7% | ||||||||
Yukon | 100% | |||||||||
Northwest Territories | 0.106% | 0.342% | ||||||||
District of Columbia | 6.93% | 100% | ||||||||
Florida | 0.876% | 0.114% | 0.118% | |||||||
Idaho | 4.10% | 31.1% | 53.6% | |||||||
New Hampshire | 0.244% | 23.1% | 76.9% | |||||||
Rhode Island | 3.07% | 3.94% | ||||||||
Vermont | 0.385% | 99.6% | ||||||||
Washington | 0.110% | 11.0% | 0.217% | 6.88% | 24.7% | |||||
Wyoming | 10.2% | 23.1% | 18.3% | |||||||
Nunavut | 0.118% | 0.595% | ||||||||
Montana | 25.6% | 30.7% | 5.29% | |||||||
Maine | 0.127% | 0.284% | 20.2% | 37.6% | 12.1% | |||||
North Dakota | 32.1% | 63.4% | 2.35% | 2.14% | ||||||
Kentucky | 100% | |||||||||
Nova Scotia | 0.134% | 0.183% | 49.4% | |||||||
Virginia | 0.108% | 12.3% | 80.1% | |||||||
Delaware | 5.31% | 99.1% | ||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 1.21% | 98.4% | ||||||||
Saskatchewan | 1.89% | 11.9% | 81.2% | 5.04% | ||||||
Mississippi | 17.6% | 49.2% | 33.2% | |||||||
West Virginia | 13.1% | 86.9% | ||||||||
Nebraska | 33.9% | 2.53% | 63.6% | |||||||
Texas | 3.30% | 2.73% | 33.1% | 56.8% | 0.184% | |||||
Missouri | 96.0% | 4.01% | ||||||||
Louisiana | 0.728% | 0.203% | 45.3% | 11.7% | ||||||
Hawaii | 1.26% | 1.65% | 58.6% | |||||||
North Carolina | 0.189% | 0.120% | 69.0% | |||||||
Oregon | 0.116% | 3.15% | 41.2% | 22.3% | 5.82% | |||||
New Brunswick | 0.167% | 0.147% | 0.167% | |||||||
Alabama | 0.215% | 19.1% | 80.8% | |||||||
New Mexico | 0.302% | 5.01% | 0.786% | 4.18% | ||||||
Kansas | 44.9% | 0.337% | 54.8% | |||||||
Wisconsin | 97.7% | 0.782% | 1.50% | |||||||
British Columbia | 1.22% | 2.96% | 0.192% | 1.58% | 0.252% | 17.2% | ||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 25.0% | |||||||||
New Jersey | 2.79% | 0.133% | ||||||||
South Carolina | 3.55% | 32.9% | 67.0% | |||||||
Michigan | 99.0% | 0.555% | 0.431% | |||||||
Alberta | 13.2% | 76.8% | 0.686% | 7.41% | ||||||
Connecticut | 0.331% | 99.9% | ||||||||
Pennsylvania | 15.9% | 5.77% | 35.8% | |||||||
Colorado | 0.215% | 35.4% | 46.4% | |||||||
Nevada | 5.36% | 0.608% | 0.185% | |||||||
Massachusetts | 0.375% | 0.491% | 6.18% | 0.195% | ||||||
Georgia | 0.545% | 4.17% | 60.4% | |||||||
New York | 0.163% | 2.89% | 55.9% | 15.1% | ||||||
Maryland | 0.568% | 0.157% | 24.7% | |||||||
Québec | 2.81% | 1.06% | 0.475% | |||||||
Manitoba | 2.12% | 97.9% | ||||||||
Oklahoma | 4.69% | 21.6% | 73.7% | |||||||
Tennessee | 99.9% | |||||||||
Ontario | 2.23% | 0.558% | 0.386% | 93.7% | ||||||
California | 0.557% | 4.11% | 9.14% | 51.8% | 34.7% | |||||
Arkansas | 0.748% | 33.1% | 66.2% | |||||||
South Dakota | 0.441% | 8.22% | 19.4% | 71.9% | ||||||
Ohio | 40.0% | 60.0% | ||||||||
Indiana | 4.74% | 95.3% | ||||||||
Minnesota | 56.7% | 29.9% | 13.4% | |||||||
Iowa | 5.06% | 2.79% | 92.1% | |||||||
Illinois | 5.45% | 18.4% | 76.2% |
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