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) | Tropical rain forest (Af) | Tropical monsoon (Am) | Tropical savanna (Aw) | Tropical, subtropical hot desert (BWh) | Midlatitude cold desert (BWk) | Tropical, subtropical hot steppe (BSh) | Midlatitude cold steppe (BSk) | Humid subtropical moist all year, hot summer (Cfa) | Marine West Coast (Cfb, Cfc) | Mediterranean (Csa, Csb) | Humid continental, hot summers (Dfa, Dwa, Dsa) | Humid continental, mild summers (Dfb, Dwb, Dsb) | Subarctic, cool summer (Dfc, Dwc, Dsc) | Tundra (ET) | |
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Alaska | 0.230% | 0.263% | 0.281% | 82.1% | 11.6% | ||||||||||
Arizona | 23.6% | 2.88% | 10.7% | 39.0% | 0.733% | 5.07% | |||||||||
Utah | 0.588% | 61.0% | 7.26% | 6.12% | |||||||||||
Yukon | 98.1% | 1.84% | |||||||||||||
Northwest Territories | 0.106% | 0.348% | 72.6% | 0.290% | |||||||||||
District of Columbia | 6.93% | 100% | |||||||||||||
Florida | 0.876% | 4.03% | 1.55% | 91.4% | |||||||||||
Idaho | 2.91% | 30.2% | 3.27% | 54.9% | 1.18% | ||||||||||
New Hampshire | 0.244% | 76.3% | 23.7% | ||||||||||||
Rhode Island | 3.07% | 13.3% | 69.7% | ||||||||||||
Vermont | 99.7% | 0.255% | |||||||||||||
Washington | 0.110% | 5.04% | 1.86% | 1.11% | 24.0% | 43.6% | |||||||||
Wyoming | 7.26% | 46.3% | 0.567% | 32.4% | 12.0% | ||||||||||
Nunavut | 0.118% | 11.8% | 17.3% | ||||||||||||
Montana | 57.3% | 38.2% | 1.27% | ||||||||||||
Maine | 0.127% | 93.3% | 6.03% | ||||||||||||
North Dakota | 10.1% | 1.48% | 86.6% | ||||||||||||
Kentucky | 92.1% | 7.93% | |||||||||||||
Nova Scotia | 0.134% | 75.7% | |||||||||||||
Virginia | 0.108% | 80.5% | 3.31% | 4.25% | 9.08% | ||||||||||
Delaware | 5.31% | 86.7% | 10.3% | ||||||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 1.21% | 89.3% | |||||||||||||
Saskatchewan | 0.467% | 36.8% | 57.3% | ||||||||||||
Mississippi | 99.8% | ||||||||||||||
West Virginia | 29.5% | 25.5% | 4.76% | ||||||||||||
Nebraska | 17.7% | 79.4% | 2.90% | ||||||||||||
Texas | 2.54% | 13.8% | 23.0% | 60.1% | |||||||||||
Missouri | 26.4% | 72.3% | |||||||||||||
Louisiana | 0.728% | 97.6% | |||||||||||||
Hawaii | 1.26% | 6.90% | 5.68% | 2.83% | 0.523% | ||||||||||
North Carolina | 0.189% | 91.1% | 3.09% | 0.441% | |||||||||||
Oregon | 0.116% | 6.51% | 31.0% | 31.1% | 15.4% | 5.08% | |||||||||
New Brunswick | 0.167% | 97.3% | |||||||||||||
Alabama | 0.215% | 100% | |||||||||||||
New Mexico | 0.730% | 68.2% | 0.895% | 2.27% | 0.265% | 0.661% | 14.3% | 0.207% | |||||||
Kansas | 22.6% | 9.98% | 67.4% | ||||||||||||
Wisconsin | 21.4% | 78.5% | |||||||||||||
British Columbia | 0.184% | 0.977% | 0.593% | 0.282% | 40.5% | 47.6% | |||||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 13.1% | 63.7% | 9.22% | ||||||||||||
New Jersey | 2.79% | 24.0% | 56.9% | 17.8% | |||||||||||
South Carolina | 3.55% | 99.3% | 0.150% | ||||||||||||
Michigan | 16.9% | 83.0% | 0.172% | ||||||||||||
Alberta | 3.24% | 63.2% | 13.0% | ||||||||||||
Connecticut | 0.331% | 51.3% | 48.4% | ||||||||||||
Pennsylvania | 0.122% | 52.0% | 44.8% | ||||||||||||
Colorado | 56.3% | 2.11% | 28.6% | 8.17% | 0.521% | ||||||||||
Nevada | 8.09% | 6.39% | 39.1% | 0.125% | 1.34% | 0.631% | |||||||||
Massachusetts | 0.375% | 1.16% | 78.7% | ||||||||||||
Georgia | 0.545% | 99.6% | 0.332% | ||||||||||||
New York | 0.163% | 2.68% | 93.4% | ||||||||||||
Maryland | 0.568% | 29.2% | 31.9% | 5.56% | |||||||||||
Québec | 0.104% | 20.2% | 62.1% | 14.6% | |||||||||||
Manitoba | 33.0% | 66.8% | |||||||||||||
Oklahoma | 9.80% | 90.2% | |||||||||||||
Tennessee | 98.2% | 1.29% | 0.470% | ||||||||||||
Ontario | 0.290% | 53.6% | 42.8% | ||||||||||||
California | 0.557% | 19.3% | 2.56% | 1.48% | 0.371% | 49.0% | 7.52% | ||||||||
Arkansas | 100% | ||||||||||||||
South Dakota | 41.0% | 41.2% | 15.3% | ||||||||||||
Ohio | 3.59% | 81.0% | 15.0% | ||||||||||||
Indiana | 6.32% | 92.9% | 0.816% | ||||||||||||
Minnesota | 15.1% | 84.4% | |||||||||||||
Iowa | 96.5% | 0.309% | |||||||||||||
Illinois | 6.99% | 89.9% | 1.23% | ||||||||||||
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