Intensifying Tropical Cyclones
Storms are intensifying faster and carrying more water than the infrastructure was built for.
Severity score
64.6
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Warmer oceans are producing more rapid intensification and greater rainfall totals, while sea level rise amplifies storm surge. Exposure is growing because coastal populations continue to increase in precisely the most vulnerable places.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
48Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
80People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
74Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
52Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
76Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.