U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceDefinition This indicator identifies the vulnerability of communities to impacts of hazards and other community-level stressors, which can include natural or human-caused disasters. It prioritizes areas based on environmental and socioeconomic burdens. Pixels can take the following values: 1 - Lower risk of natural hazards, not a natural asset 2 - Lower risk of natural hazards, natural asset 3 - Medium risk of natural hazards, not a natural asset 4 - Medium risk of natural hazards, natural asset 5 - High risk of natural hazards, not a natural asset 6 - High risk of natural hazards, natural asset Selection This indicator was chosen as a targetable, important feature of the MLI goals that will be used to track conditions over time and prioritize areas for conservation. Indicators were defined through elicitation and prioritization exercises with federal and state participants. Criteria for the indicators includes 1) actionable, 2) measurable, 3) relevant to multiple groups across the region, and/or 4) representative of other social and/or environmental values. Input Data & Mapping Steps This indicator originates from the FEMA Coastal Flooding, Drought, Riverine Flooding, and Wildfire data layers. To create this layer, MLI partners, members, and staff completed the following mapping steps: projected all input data to NAD83 (2011) UTM Zone 15N, converted all input polygons to 30m rasters, mosaicked all rasters together to get a sum of expected annual losses from natural disasters, and emphasized natural assets within vulnerable areas for a raster with the following values: 1 - Lower risk of natural hazards, not a natural asset, 2 - Lower risk of natural hazards, natural asset, 3 - Medium risk of natural hazards, not a natural asset, 4 - Medium risk of natural hazards, natural asset, 5 - High risk of natural hazards, not a natural asset, and 6 - High risk of natural hazards, natural asset. Finally, we removed highly altered areas using our Highly Altered Areas Mask. For full mapping details, please refer to the Midwest Conservation Blueprint Development Process . For a complete download of all Blueprint input and output data, visit the Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Data Download.ArcGIS ImageMapLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/f082bb7527f84c20bc7114d4bfbe7d38engU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open DataPublicHazard & Disaster Risk - Natural Hazards (Midwest Conservation Blueprint 2026 Indicator) [United States]Web servicesUnited States2026