Parts of the Midwest are becoming increasingly popular.
To people tired of dealing with floods,
hurricanes, wildfires and droughts, it seems like kind of in
that Midwest center part of the United States,
they're not getting as much of those extreme storms and
other things.
The Environmental Defense Fund released this map showing which states
are most vulnerable to climate change.
States like Florida and Louisiana received the highest scores.
And so when you launch it,
you'll see this map with all these blue.
Colors and The darker the color,
the higher the overall vulnerability score,
meaning that you're more climate vulnerable if you have a
darker score.
And the lighter the color Doesn't mean that you aren't
climate vulnerable,
just that means that you're ranking lesser than the ones
with the darker score.
States like Wisconsin and Minnesota received the lowest scores.
The one thing to to take note of is that
there is not a single state or the District of
Columbia that is not climate vulnerable in some way,
shape, or form. So the climate is affecting us all.
However, we do see that the highest ranking census tracts
are actually in the South and the Southeast.
This century, over 3.2 million Americans have moved away from
areas at risk of flooding,
according to 1st St. Foundation.
More than four out of five people surveyed are factoring
in climate risks when buying a new home,
according to Zillow. T Lewis says if you do move,
it's important to understand the hazards you may face in
your new location.
You can take this tool,
with its 184 indicators and try to understand the factors
that make a community that something you want to live
in.
Are you moving to an area that's equally as climate
vulnerable in a different way?
For AccuWeather, I'm Emmy Victor.