PlainHazard Editorial
Independent hazard-data publisher
Storm and disaster record, NOAA and FEMA files
Background
PlainHazard Editorial is the desk that publishes PlainHazard, the U.S. storm and disaster record: NOAA's Storm Events and tornado files and FEMA's declarations, flood claims and risk index, joined county by county. It accepts no payment from anyone it covers. Every page names its source file and date, and the methodology explains which figures are the agencies' and which are PlainHazard's calculations.
What PlainHazard publishes
The federal storm and disaster files, read and joined county by county: NOAA's Storm Events Database (county and forecast-zone records since 1950), the Storm Prediction Center's tornado tracks, and FEMA's disaster declarations, flood insurance claims and National Risk Index. Each page names the files it uses and their dates.
It prints figures as the agencies filed them and says what it computes itself: damage in 2025 dollars, days with a record, ranks per square mile. It issues no forecasts or warnings and rates no property.
How it is checked
Each release rebuilds the database from the federal files. Before it goes live, figures on every kind of page are checked against the source files, every page that readers and search engines reach is fetched, and the changelog records what changed.
AI tools write the code, the templates and the explanatory text, under the editorial policy; they supply no figures, since every count, rank and dollar amount is a query over the files.
Feedback
A figure that looks wrong is checked against the NOAA or FEMA file it comes from before anything changes, and every correction is logged on the corrections page. Contact page · hello@plainhazard.com
Areas of focus
- natural hazards
- disaster data
- public dataset analysis
Contact and identity
- Email: hello@plainhazard.com
- Publisher: https://plainhazard.com