Risk

Hazard Risk is a combination of underlying threats, composite vulnerability, and severity of consequences.  It is important to note that risk is derived from the combination of a hazard, assets and people exposed, and high enough severity of consequences that impacts to lives and livelihoods may be realized. Places where each of these three is not present will not have a risk or will have a very low risk.  For example, a county area that has historically been exposed to hurricane force winds will only have hurricane with risk if it has people, vulnerable people, or community lifelines in the area of exposure.     

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