Dallas County, Texas

Environmental and societal risk assessment

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Natural disasters summary

Societal risks summary

Natural Disaster Score

Risk score37.64%

Societal Risk Score

Risk score41.56%

2,586,050 inhabitants

5.6% unemployment rate

$65.77k median HH income

30.03 crimes per 1000 residents

1,145 residents per km²

13.7% poverty rate

4.42 income inequality

78.3 years life expectancy

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

Natural disaster risk assessment

Risk score37.64%

Average disaster risk exposure for Dallas County, Texas

History of natural disasters

List of recorded natural disasters and incidents in Dallas County


Storm events

Risk score3.8%

Dallas 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

Dallas County is not 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.

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Earthquakes

Risk score15.82%

In Dallas 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 score11.77%

The Dallas 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 score41.56%

Average societal risk exposure for Dallas County, Texas

Crime Risk

Risk score36.77%

The Dallas 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 score55%

The Dallas 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

58 hospitals

9,599 hospital beds

2,150 dentists

7 physicians per 10k residents

37 beds per 10K residents

3,601 mental health providers

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

Nuclear Power Plants

Dallas 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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