Climate Trainings Started Here Impact other Coastal States
The Takeaway: Washington workshop gives planners local data and provides examples of successful adaptation strategies.
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Population of State Living in Coastal Areas
Coastal Employment
Annual Wages
Climate and Weather Disasters
(Affecting Washington 2010 to 2018)*
Of the total population of approximately 7 million in Washington, over 4.8 million people live in coastal portions of the state.
Coastal Washington employs almost 2.4 million people annually, earning a total of over $162 billion. This equates to almost $419 billion in gross domestic product.
One billion-dollar weather disaster affected Washington in 2018—and a total of 8 affected the state between 2010 and 2018. Wildfires and drought accounted for the vast majority of costs and destruction.*
Sources:
American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates (NOAA Data)
*Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (NOAA Website)
(All economic and demographic facts represent the latest data available [2015] and are regularly updated as new data become available)
The Takeaway: Washington workshop gives planners local data and provides examples of successful adaptation strategies.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Partners join forces to focus on multi-hazard planning, preparedness, response, and recovery.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: A project that mimics aspects of cobble sand beaches virtually stopped the erosion of shoreline uplands in pilot studies aided by NOAA and Washington State’s coastal zone management program.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Research reserves determine methodology for calculating sea level rise impact on the marsh and test it in 16 locations. Methodology standardizes the effort and creates a national approach.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Local partners are working together to restore and preserve natural habitats.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Natural resource managers benefit from Padilla Bay’s experience in removing and controlling invasive species.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: NOAA initiatives and state partnership programs are making a difference throughout the nation’s coastal zone.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: The Padilla Bay Research Reserve’s expertise and data inform a plan to protect natural resources from oil-spill disasters.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Early detection and action (more than 192 traps at 83-plus sites) stops this predator from wrecking the shellfish industry.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: This effort helps coastal officials make decisions about shellfish harvesting.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: New sea level rise projections and guidance are informing community policies, plans, development, and funding projects, with help from NOAA programs and grants.
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