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Prepper / Resilience

Self-reliance and disruption-resilience proxy from disaster safety, climate resilience, low population, water access, drought, wildfire, sea-level, and healthcare scores.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Prepper / Resilience is a self-reliance and disruption-resilience proxy that rewards places with lower hazard exposure, stronger climate resilience, lower population density, water access, and enough healthcare access to avoid pure isolation.

  1. 1

    The score is a weighted average of already-published 0-100 component scores.

  2. 2

    Weights are 22% Natural Disaster Safety, 18% Climate Resilience, 16% Low Population, 14% Water Access, 10% Low Sea-Level Rise Risk, 8% Low Drought Risk, 6% Low Wildfire Disaster Risk, and 6% Healthcare Access.

  3. 3

    The scorer fails fast if component weights do not sum to exactly 1 within a tiny floating-point tolerance.

  4. 4

    If a component is unavailable, it is imputed as a neutral 50 rather than treated as positive evidence, and the scorer still requires at least 80% component-weight coverage.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Prepper / Resilience.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Prepper / Resilience is a self-reliance and disruption-resilience proxy that rewards places with lower hazard exposure, stronger climate resilience, lower population density, water access, and enough healthcare access to avoid pure isolation.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Natural Disaster Safety

    Published FEMA NRI-derived composite of lower current disaster risk.

    Source: Published score components
  • Climate Resilience

    Published future climate-risk composite from CMRA-derived hazard signals.

    Source: Published score components
  • Low Population

    Published canonical population-size score used as a simple lower-density proxy.

    Source: Published score components
  • Water Access

    Published nearby water-recreation access score used as a rough water-proximity proxy.

    Source: Published score components
  • Drought, wildfire, and sea-level risk

    Published hazard-specific components used to avoid fragile climate and disaster exposures.

    Source: Published score components
  • Healthcare Access

    Published healthcare access score included as a small practical resilience tradeoff.

    Source: Published score components

Source Data

Source: Published score componentsAlready-published Places component scores reused as inputs to a composite score.

Known Limits

  • This is a disruption-resilience proxy, not a survival guarantee or emergency plan.
  • It does not yet include nuclear-target proximity, local agriculture capacity, exact freshwater security, private land access, local governance quality, or neighborhood mutual-aid networks.
  • Low population is used as a simple density and target-risk proxy, but it can under-credit small cities with strong services and over-credit remote places with limited logistics.
  • Healthcare access is included as a small practical tradeoff, so the highest-scoring places are not necessarily the most isolated.

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Ranked by Prepper / Resilience.

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