Florida Is the Most Impacted State By Trump's Paris Agreement Withdrawal

Our analysis of census tracts adjacent to the coast & ocean shows Florida has 1.9M people in 1.2M houses that are the most likely to be impacted by rising sea levels & Trump’s Paris agreement withdrawal. Our analysis involved pulling together disparate data sources such as Census data, NOAA’s sea level riser data & TIGER shape files. The current publicly available data to understand the impact of rising sea levels & climate change is a census designation of coastal counties. However, just because a county is designated as coastline does not mean that all places within the county are adjacent to the coast & most impacted by rising sea levels.

We went one level deeper & studied census tracts within coastal counties & analyzed which census tracts were adjacent to the coast or ocean & what places those census tracts belonged to. Based on that analysis, we further mapped the population & housing units on those census tracts. We believe these are the places with the highest risk of rising sea levels & most adversely impacted by climate change & Trump’s Paris agreement withdrawal.

Across, the US, we found that there are 9.7 million people living in 5.4 million homes in these 2592 census tracts adjacent to the ocean. You can browse through the various places & census tracts for all states at this link.

The ranking for all states with Florida at the top is given below & the top 30 most impacted places with census tract IDs is listed after the state ranking.

TOP US STATES WITH POPULATION IN CENSUS TRACTS ADJACENT TO THE OCEAN

TOP 30 PLACES IN FLORIDA WITH POPULATION IN CENSUS TRACTS ADJACENT TO THE OCEAN