<p class="ingestion featured-caption">A view of Pittsburgh's skyline and the Duquesne Incline.Sean Pavone/Shutterstock</p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Some Americans are choosing where to live based on the risk of climate-related disasters.</strong></li><li><strong>For example, cities in Maryland and Wisconsin are less prone to flooding, heat, or wildfires.</strong></li></ul><p>Retiree Marcia Flanagan lived in Arizona for 25 years before <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-from-arizona-to-kansas-climate-crisis-drought-2023-5">fears of extreme droughts and heat prompted her to move</a>. Jason Beury, an architect, relocated from New York City to Kansas <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-to-kansas-from-brooklyn-climate-crisis-housing-affordability-2023-5">due to concerns about flooding</a>. And a family of six <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-homeowners-insurance-rising-costs-moving-to-wisconsin-2023-9">living near Miami decamped to Wisconson</a> after their home insurance skyrocketed due to risk from sea level rise and electricity bills climbed due to heat.</p><p>Extreme weather events, including <a target="_blank" rel href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-climate-change-crisis-extreme-weather-is-costing-you-2023-9"><u>hurricanes, wildfires, and dangerous heat and humidity</u></a>, have increased not only in frequency but also in intensity over the past few decades — and are predicted only to get worse.</p><p class="preview">For some Americans, this has prompted a reevaluation of where to call home. People are increasingly <a target="_blank" rel href="https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-migration-where-moved-escape-natural-disasters-extreme-weather"><u>taking the risks of climate change into account when moving</u></a>. Between 2000 and 2020, <a target="_blank" href="https://firststreet.org/press/press-release-39-million-properties-are-significantly-overvalued-due-to-artificially-suppressed-home-insurance-costs/">3.2 million people moved out of high-flood-risk areas</a>, according to a new report from climate-research organization First Street.</p><p class="preview">"Climate migration" is a broad term, as some people move out of fear of what the future holds, while others move because financial and other circumstances force them to.</p><p class="preview">But where to go?</p><p class="premium">Online insurance marketplace Policygenius evaluated <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" href="https://www.policygenius.com/homeowners-insurance/best-and-worst-cities-climate-change/#methodology"><u>the climate risks of America's 50 most populous cities</u></a> based on their likelihood of experiencing the following issues by the year 2050: heat and humidity, flooding and sea level rise, air quality, and frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.</p><p class="premium">Policygenius also judged the cities' social vulnerability, or likelihood of death and disruption as a result of these conditions, and community resilience, the ability to prepare for and adapt to a changing climate. It used publicly available data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other studies as laid out in its <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" href="https://www.policygenius.com/homeowners-insurance/best-and-worst-cities-climate-change/#methodology"><u>full methodology</u></a>.</p><p class="premium">Even cities that aren't at high risk carry some risk of climate-borne disaster, and it's important to note that Policygenius only ranked America's biggest cities. Smaller cities </p><p class="premium">Read on to find out more about the cities least at risk, from Pittsburgh to Minneapolis, and why.</p>