Explore top NJ risks:
Climate change means more mosquito days, increasing Zika risk.
More than 180,000 people living in New Jersey are especially vulnerable to extreme heat.
New Jersey is the sixth-fastest warming state in the country, based on average annual temperatures since 1970.
Summers are getting muggier as the dewpoint temperature rises.
In New Jersey, more than 300,000 people are living in areas at elevated risk of inland flooding.
Across most of the country, the heaviest downpours are happening more frequently, delivering a deluge in place of what would have been routine heavy rain.
According to the National Climate Assessment, the most extreme precipitation events have increased in every region of the contiguous states since the 1950s.
Climate change causing more nuisance flooding in New Jersey
Today, New Jersey has 352,000 people at risk of coastal flooding. By 2050, an additional 110,000 people are projected to be at risk due to sea level rise.
Atlantic hurricane season is seeing more major storms
U.S. Cities We Could Lose to the Sea
Hoboken, N.J.
Sea level threats down to zip code
Type a coastal place name in New Jersey and find local projections, maps and potential impacts on people, infrastructure, and much more with our interactive tool.
The highest observed flood level at Atlantic City was 4ft above the local high tide line. At this flood level, more than $75 billion worth of property and 750 hazardous waste sites in the state are at risk of coastal flooding.
5.1 billion gallons of sewage spilled in New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy.
About 90% of the extra heat captured by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions is stored in the oceans, contributing to ocean water expansion and a great portion of the 2015 record global mean sea level.
What's Happening in Your Region?
New Jersey
Risks of Hurricane Sandy-like Surge Events Rising
Hurricane Sandy, which was officially re-classified as a post-tropical storm shortly before landfall, caused heavy damage along the New Jersey shore, and caused the most extensive coastal flooding event in modern-day New York City... More
North Carolina
Sinking Atlantic Coastline Meets Rapidly Rising Seas
New research using GPS and prehistoric data has shown that nearly the entire coast is affected, from Massachusetts to Florida and parts of Maine... More
Pennsylvania
U.S. Airports Face Increasing Threat From Rising Seas
The threat isn't that sea level rise will gradually breach the defenses surrounding each airport. Instead, at least during the next few decades, scientists say that sea level rise will be more of an enabler of storm-surge flooding, making it easier for even minor storms to produce more damaging surges and flooding... More
New York
Sandy’s Surge Was Extreme. It Could Become Normal
The risk posed by future storms like Sandy is only going to increase due to climate change. The potential for stronger storms and rising seas mean Sandy-level flooding could could occur once every 23 years as opposed to once every 400... More
