First Street Foundation’s aggregated national, property-level, climate-adjusted data are now available on the AWS Data Exchange (ADX). The data are available in CSV format and are aggregated at the state, congressional district, county, zip code and census tract level, incorporating risk changes due to climate change from 2022 to 2052.
Publicly available Flood Risk Data
The chart below provides an overview of our First Street Flood data dictionary. This is an example of one of the many aggregate-level data sets offered by First Street Foundation that can be publicly downloaded through AWS. For more information about the methods behind the First Street Foundation Flood Model, please review this page.
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Summary Column Header |
Description |
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fips |
geofield (e.g. state, congressional district, county, zip code, or census tract |
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count_property |
number of properties |
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count_floodfactor1 |
number of properties with a risk score = 1 |
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count_floodfactor2 |
number of properties with a risk score = 2 |
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count_floodfactor3 |
number of properties with a risk score = 3 |
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count_floodfactor4 |
number of properties with a risk score = 4 |
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count_floodfactor5 |
number of properties with a risk score = 5 |
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count_floodfactor6 |
number of properties with a risk score = 6 |
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count_floodfactor7 |
number of properties with a risk score = 7 |
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count_floodfactor8 |
number of properties with a risk score = 8 |
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count_floodfactor9 |
number of properties with a risk score = 9 |
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count_floodfactor10 |
number of properties with a risk score = 10 |
Publicly available Wildfire Risk Data
The chart below provides an overview of our First Street Wildfire data dictionary. Please review our Wildfire Model Overview page to learn more about the methods used to derive Fire Factor scores.
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Summary Column Header |
Description |
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fips |
geofield (e.g. state, congressional district, county, zip code, or census tract |
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count_property |
number of properties |
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count_firefactor1 |
number of properties with a risk score = 1 |
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count_firefactor2 |
number of properties with a risk score = 2 |
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count_firefactor3 |
number of properties with a risk score = 3 |
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count_firefactor4 |
number of properties with a risk score = 4 |
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count_firefactor5 |
number of properties with a risk score = 5 |
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count_firefactor6 |
number of properties with a risk score = 6 |
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count_firefactor7 |
number of properties with a risk score = 7 |
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count_firefactor8 |
number of properties with a risk score = 8 |
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count_firefactor9 |
number of properties with a risk score = 9 |
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count_firefactor10 |
number of properties with a risk score = 10 |
Publicly available Heat Risk Data
The data dictionary below breaks down the publicly available data from our Extreme Heat Model. For more information about the methodology behind the model, please review this page.
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Summary Column Header |
Description |
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fips |
geofield (e.g. state, congressional district, county, zip code, or census tract |
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count_property |
number of properties |
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count_heatfactor1 |
number of properties with a risk score = 1 |
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count_heatfactor2 |
number of properties with a risk score = 2 |
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count_heatfactor3 |
number of properties with a risk score = 3 |
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count_heatfactor4 |
number of properties with a risk score = 4 |
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count_heatfactor5 |
number of properties with a risk score = 5 |
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count_heatfactor6 |
number of properties with a risk score = 6 |
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count_heatfactor7 |
number of properties with a risk score = 7 |
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count_heatfactor8 |
number of properties with a risk score = 8 |
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count_heatfactor9 |
number of properties with a risk score = 9 |
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count_heatfactor10 |
number of properties with a risk score = 10 |
Follow these steps to access the First Street data on AWS
- Create a free AWS account* here
- Sign in as a Root user
- From the Console Home, search and click on AWS Data Exchange under Services in the search bar
- In the Browse catalog search bar, search ‘First Street Foundation’
- Select a data product of interest
- Select Continue to subscribe
- Once your subscription has been approved, you can view and download the data under the My subscriptions tab on the left-hand side of the AWS Data Exchange dashboard homepage
- Click Subscriptions under My subscriptions and select the product
- Under Entitled data sets, click on the product name
- Scroll down to Revisions, and click the most recent date
- Under Assets, select an individual file, and under Export actions, select Download selected assets
Aggregated flood risk statistics are downloadable as comma separated value (CSV) files. To create maps and visualize flood risk, join the summary statistics datasets to census reference data. A how-to guide for incorporating the AWS data into ArcGIS is here and onto QGIS is available on the documentation page.
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