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Indicators

Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas – World Resources Institute (WRI)

Tool for understanding water-related risks and assessing exposure to water risk worldwide. Including 13 indicators of baseline water quality and future water quality. The atlas includes tools for prioritizing basins based on their indicators. 

wri.org/applications/aqueduct/water-risk-atlas/ 

Growing Water Smart Metrics – Sonoran Institute

The Metrics Report assists communities in measuring progress towards integrating water and land use planning. Data-informed decisions lead to intentional adaptations. This guidebook recommends common metrics, and how to collect this data at community, regional, and state scales. 

sonoraninstitute.org/resource/growing-water-smart-metrics-report/

HVRI Data and Resources– Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at University of South Carolina

A myriad of vulnerability and resilience indicators and methods used to calculate them. These methods and tools underly the National Risk Index maps.  

HVRI 

National Risk Index Map – FEMA

Interactive Map that allows analysis of natural hazard risks, expected annual losses, social vulnerability, and community resilience across states, counties and census blocks. Comparison tool allows you to compare multiple jurisdictions. Summary reports can be downloaded.  

hazards.fema.gov/nri/map