Access temporal county-level SHELDUS hazard damage data

Retrieves county-level hazard event data from the Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS), including property damage, crop damage, fatalities, and injuries.

Usage

get_sheldus(file_path = NULL)

Arguments

file_path: The path to the raw SHELDUS data. If NULL (default), the most recently modified direct_loss_aggregated_output_*.csv file found under Box's hazards/sheldus directory is used, and a message discloses which file/vintage was selected.

Value

A dataframe comprising hazard x month x year x county observations of hazard events. Columns include:

unique_id: Unique identifier for each observation.
GEOID: Five-digit county FIPS code.
state_name: Full state name (sentence case).
county_name: County name.
year: Year of the hazard event(s).
month: Month of the hazard event(s).
hazard: Type of hazard (e.g., "Flooding", "Hurricane/Tropical Storm").
damage_property: Property damage in inflation-adjusted dollars (base year varies by SHELDUS vintage; see the function's message for the base year used).
damage_crop: Crop damage in inflation-adjusted dollars (see damage_property).
fatalities: Number of fatalities.
injuries: Number of injuries.
records: Number of individual events aggregated into this observation.

Details

Data are from Arizona State University's SHELDUS database. Access requires a subscription. See https://cemhs.asu.edu/sheldus.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_sheldus()
} # }