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Natural hazards

Climate change is likely to alter the frequency, intensity and distribution of significant fire and weather-related natural hazards such as storms, flooding and heatwaves. As our climate changes, it is critical that emergency management organisations take into account potential changes to natural hazards in their emergency risk management processes.

The Impacts of climate change on natural hazards profiles provide information about:

• the current exposure of each region to eight natural hazards (fire, wind, lightning, hail, flash flooding, riverine flooding, heatwaves, and coastal erosion and inundation) where regionally applicable
• projections of future changes to these natural hazards due to climate change.