City risk rankings

The ten highest overall scores across every city on this site, and the top five for each individual hazard. Every score here is the same fixed 0-100 figure shown on that city's own page - nothing is recomputed for this list.

Overall

1. 1 Baghdad Iraq High 67
2. 2 Yangon Myanmar High 66
3. 3 Dhaka Bangladesh High 65
4. 4 Taipei Taiwan High 65
5. 5 Manila Philippines High 65
6. 6 Hanoi Vietnam High 62
7. 7 Kolkata India Elevated 60
8. 8 Delhi India Elevated 59
9. 9 Vientiane Lao PDR Elevated 58
10. 10 Karachi Pakistan Elevated 57

Top 5 — Flood

1. 1 Baghdad Iraq 100
2. 2 New Orleans United States 100
3. 3 Phnom Penh Cambodia 93
4. 4 Hanoi Vietnam 91
5. 5 Taipei Taiwan 91

Top 5 — Earthquake

1. 1 Tokyo Japan 82
2. 2 Santiago Chile 81
3. 3 Taipei Taiwan 77
4. 4 San Salvador El Salvador 76
5. 5 Managua Nicaragua 75

Top 5 — Cyclone

1. 1 Manila Philippines 96
2. 2 Taipei Taiwan 93
3. 3 San Juan Puerto Rico 83
4. 4 Kingston Jamaica 81
5. 5 Miami United States 79

Top 5 — Wildfire

1. 1 Port Moresby Papua New Guinea 100
2. 2 Juba South Sudan 100
3. 3 Harare Zimbabwe 100
4. 4 Bamako Mali 96
5. 5 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo 95

Top 5 — Extreme heat

1. 1 Baghdad Iraq 98
2. 2 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 88
3. 3 Dubai United Arab Emirates 85
4. 4 N'Djamena Chad 85
5. 5 Kuwait City Kuwait 84

Top 5 — Air quality

1. 1 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 100
2. 2 Delhi India 98
3. 3 Dhaka Bangladesh 94
4. 4 Kampala Uganda 94
5. 5 Cairo Egypt 90

These are absolute scores on a scale fixed in advance, not a ranking tournament between cities - see the methodology for what they do and do not mean.