hazard map
Danger zone diagram
A hazard map shows areas at risk from natural disasters or other dangers—floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides.
Government agencies and urban planners use them to guide development, establish evacuation routes, and assess insurance risk: The hazard map showed our property sits in a hundred-year floodplain.
- riskPossibility of harm
- high riskSubstantial chance of loss
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
- flood zoneArea susceptible to inundation
- evacuationRemoval from danger
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- emergency preparednessemergency kit, evacuation plan, emergency plan, emergency alerts, emergency supplies
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