Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Environmental and societal risk assessment

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Natural disasters summary

Societal risks summary

Natural Disaster Score

Risk score39.22%

Societal Risk Score

Risk score43.41%

771,245 inhabitants

6% unemployment rate

$85.22k median HH income

31.4 crimes per 1000 residents

5,112 residents per km²

16.5% poverty rate

7.7 income inequality

80.9 years life expectancy

Source: USDA ERS County-level datasets 2020; County Health Rankings 2022; Augurisk crime data

Natural disaster risk assessment

Risk score39.22%

Average disaster risk exposure for Suffolk County, Massachusetts

History of natural disasters

List of recorded natural disasters and incidents in Suffolk County


Storm events

Risk score44.62%

Suffolk County

Source: Risk scoring by Augurisk. Scoring methodology based on historical data, involving a frequency and severity analysis of various storm events. NOAA Storm events database.

Coastal Flooding

49.05% of the blocks in the Suffolk County are potentially exposed to coastal flooding.

Source: Scoring by Augurisk. Scoring methodology based on local elevation, storm events incidence, and expected sea level rise. Elevation data - USGS 3DEP Elevation program. Sweet, W.V., R.E. Kopp, C. P. Weaver, J. Obeysekera, R. M. Horton, E.R. Thieler and C. Zervas (2017), Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States. NOAA Tech. Rep. NOS CO-OPS 83.

Expected sea level rise in Suffolk County


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Earthquakes

Risk score36.73%

In Suffolk County,

Source: Scoring by Augurisk, based on USGS earthquake data using 2% probability and a 50 years horizon. Rukstales, K.S., and Petersen, M.D., 2019, Data Release for 2018 Updates of the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model: U.S. Geological Survey data release.

Wildfires

Risk score11.9%

The Suffolk County

Source: Scoring by Augurisk, based on average Wildfire Hazard Potential values (Dillon et al., 2014) and expected increase in summer temperature in the county. Mearns, L.O., et al., 2017: The NA-CORDEX dataset, version 1.0. NCAR Climate Data Gateway, Boulder CO, accessed [December 2019]; Dillon, G.K.; J. Menakis; and F. Fay. 2015. Wildland Fire Potential: A Tool for Assessing Wildfire Risk and Fuels Management Needs. pp 60-76 In Keane, R. E.; Jolly, M.; Parsons, R.; and Riley, K. Proceedings of the large wildland fires conference; May 19-23, 2014; Missoula, MT. Proc. RMRS-P-73. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Societal Risks

Risk score43.41%

Average societal risk exposure for Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Crime Risk

Risk score37.58%

The Suffolk County

Source:
Data and scoring by Augurisk, based on predictions generated using a tree-based learning algorithm. The methodology for the model, which uses 188 predictors and was trained on 11 U.S. cities, is published in an international peer-reviewed academic journal. Violent crime predictions include simple assaults.

Ashby, M.P.J. (2019): Studying Crime and Place with the Crime Open Database. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences 4(1), pp. 65-80; U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey, 2014-2018 5-Year Estimates; The methodology behind Augurisk crime scores was published in an international peer-reviewed journal. Lamari, Y.; Freskura, B.; Abdessamad, A.; Eichberg, S.; de Bonviller, S. Predicting Spatial Crime Occurrences through an Efficient Ensemble-Learning Model. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 645.

Air Quality

Risk score36.36%

The Suffolk County

Source: Scoring by Augurisk based on daily median and maximal Air Quality Indexes (AQI) in the last 3 years, averaged over the county’s area.
U.S. EPA AirNow program.

Hospital Infrastructure

24 hospitals

6,670 hospital beds

1,632 dentists

15 physicians per 10k residents

86 beds per 10K residents

5,968 mental health providers

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data: Hospitals.
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2019.

Nuclear Power Plants

Suffolk County has no nuclear power plants.

Source: Scoring by Augurisk based on nuclear reactor characteristics and waste storage sites in the county. Data on nuclear reactors and waste storage sites retrieved from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s high-value datasets.

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