A few weeks ago I published a list of interactive government maps that have been censored and deleted by the Trump administration. Now The Guardian has resurrected one of those maps!
Over 200 employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been fired by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Those who remain have been ordered to remove all language related to climate change from FEMA websites and publications. One victim of this purge was FEMA's Future Risk Index interactive map.
This FEMA map was designed to help communities across the United States prepare for climate change. It did this by projecting the potential economic losses from environmental hazards such as coastal flooding, extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and drought. The map was a free resource that allowed Americans to explore how climate change might impact their neighborhoods. Data that the Trump administration has tried to remove from public view.
The Guardian has now used data "preserved by the data consultancy Fulton Ring" to recreate the US Future Risk Index. Just like the original FEMA index the map can be used to explore the likely economic losses from environmental hazards such as coastal flooding, extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and drought - at the county level.
Via: Data Viz Dispatch