If you are ever asked about your area’s climate risk due to changes in climate for later in this century, particularly around the 2040’s, you will find this new paper published by Springer in Natural Hazards to be very useful (it’s open access so you don’t have to pay to read it). The paper discusses how changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea level as well as other climate-related hazards like heat waves will affect the US on a county-by-county basis. It includes factors such as population and socio-economic vulnerability to extreme weather. The article includes a number of maps which can help narrow down the results to local areas. You can access it at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-020-04385-y. In the Southeast, Florida is the most vulnerable state due to its exposure to hurricanes and its long coastline, but areas around large cities such as Atlanta are also more vulnerable due to at-risk populations and urbanization, which can make heat worse.
