Areas of physical climate risk to facilities of listed companies

Factories, warehouses, offices and other facilities that belong to companies in cities that include Miami, Osaka, Pune, Sao Paulo, New York and Riyadh are in the top quartile of exposure globally to hazards such as flooding, extreme heat, wildfires, and severe storms.

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Source: MSCI ESG Research, data as of March 31, 2025, based on MSCI Geospatial Asset Intelligence. For each of the 14 physical hazards covered by MSCI Climate Risk Center’s Physical Risk model, we assess the hazard exposure of over 2M corporate asset locations. The map highlights cities that exhibit exposure to physical hazards in the top quartile compared to the reference dataset (>= 75) for pluvial flooding, fluvial flooding, coastal flooding, tropical cyclones, extreme heat and wildfire.