Houston

Average annual GDP

$329.17bn

Total GDP@Risk

$31.66bn 9.62% of Average annual GDP

GDP@Risk: Top 5 threats

  • 1
    Flood $7.83bn
  • 2
    Market crash $7.65bn
  • 3
    Oil price shock $4.79bn
  • 4
    Cyber attack $4.29bn
  • 5
    Human pandemic $2.54bn

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Houston

GDP@Risk: All threats

$31.66bn


$1,000bn
  • 1 Flood $7.83bn
  • 2 Market crash $7.65bn
  • 3 Oil price shock $4.79bn
  • 4 Cyber attack $4.29bn
  • 5 Human pandemic $2.54bn
  • 6 Drought $1.52bn
  • 7 Wind storm $1.20bn
  • 8 Solar storm $0.59bn
  • 9 Power outage $0.51bn
  • 10 Plant epidemic $0.33bn
  • 11 Sovereign default $0.17bn
  • 12 Heatwave $0.15bn
  • 13 Nuclear accident $0.07bn
  • 14 Terrorism $0.02bn
  • 15 Earthquake $0.00bn
  • - Freeze $0.00bn
  • - Tsunami $0.00bn
  • - Volcano $0.00bn

Houston

GDP@Risk: Manmade threats

$17.49bn

55.25% of Total GDP@Risk

Houston

GDP@Risk: Natural threats

$14.17bn

44.75% of Total GDP@Risk

Houston

GDP@Risk: Emerging threats

$7.75bn

24.48% of Total GDP@Risk

Minimal (<$0.01bn) or no GDP@Risk:

Solar storm: While the threat itself is not emerging our vulnerability to the risks it poses is.

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Average annual GDP
The annual economic output of a selected location calculated by averaging GDP projections from 2015 to 2025.
Total GDP@Risk
The expected loss to a selected location’s economic output from all 18 threats. Its calculation combines the likelihood of events occurring during the period 2015 to 2025 with the loss of GDP that would result.
% of Average annual GDP
The expected loss to a selected location’s economic output from all 18 threats as a percentage of its Average annual GDP.
City rankings by country
The 50 countries selected highlight the countries with the highest aggregate total GDP@Risk. Each country table lists the GDP@Risk of cities within the 50 selected countries.

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