Mapping the United States of Disaster

BRIDGET REED MORAWSKI

CLIMATE Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county receive a federal disaster declaration because of extreme weather. Some states, including California, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, have received dozens. The real number of congressional districts that have faced extreme weather could be even higher, says Amy Chester, the managing director for Rebuild by Design. The organization’s new publication, Atlas of Accountability, shows how climate disasters are occurring across the country, regardless of an area’s population density or geography. “A lot of those districts [that didn’t receive a federal disaster declaration] have had high heat deaths and major heat waves,” she says. But “the federal government doesn’t give federal disaster declarations” for heat waves, so those events can’t be accounted for in…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2025

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