Rankings · Risk

Lowest drought risk by state

Drought risk.

FEMA National Risk Index score for drought. Matters less for a building than for what surrounds it — water rates, well reliability, irrigation limits and, indirectly, the wildfire score beside it.

  1. 1District of Columbia0.0
  2. 2Vermont0.0
  3. 3Alaska1.0
  4. 4Michigan1.8
  5. 5Washington13.7
  6. 6Oregon15.6
  7. 7Hawaii16.8
  8. 8Idaho17.5
  9. 9New York17.8
  10. 10Wyoming23.5
  11. 11Wisconsin24.9
  12. 12North Dakota26.1
  13. 13Nevada26.1
  14. 14Ohio26.7
  15. 15Montana28.2
  16. 16Kentucky29.6
  17. 17West Virginia32.0
  18. 18Georgia32.5
  19. 19Rhode Island33.9
  20. 20Pennsylvania37.5
  21. 21Tennessee40.1
  22. 22Minnesota40.7
  23. 23Connecticut40.8
  24. 24Arkansas41.0
  25. 25Colorado41.1
  26. 26Indiana41.2
  27. 27Missouri43.2
  28. 28Virginia43.8
  29. 29Illinois45.7
  30. 30South Carolina46.6
  31. 31Utah49.4
  32. 32New Hampshire49.8
  33. 33Kansas50.1
  34. 34Florida50.2
  35. 35South Dakota51.6
  36. 36North Carolina52.8
  37. 37Maine55.1
  38. 38New Jersey55.2
  39. 39Alabama56.2
  40. 40Mississippi60.0
  41. 41Massachusetts61.5
  42. 42Texas64.1
  43. 43California66.8
  44. 44New Mexico70.2
  45. 45Nebraska70.9
  46. 46Maryland71.4
  47. 47Louisiana71.9
  48. 48Oklahoma76.6
  49. 49Arizona84.6
  50. 50Delaware84.8
  51. 51Iowa88.1
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Source: FEMA National Risk Index. · How this is built