Here, we examine the spatial patterns of (mis)alignment between climate-related risks and risk perceptions across the conterminous US and discuss how (mis)alignment may affect climate efforts in these places. We use public data describing county-level US public perceptions of personal climate risk developed by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and derived via a multilevel regression with post-stratification on a national survey (Howe et al 2015) (figure 1(A)) and publicly available hazard risk data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Index that quantifies and rates expected annual economic loss resulting from climate-related hazards (Zuzak et al 2021) for five major hazards (figure 1(B)): drought, [...]
