Mapping Climate Extremes and Infrastructure Vulnerability: A New Database for U.S. Railroads

This study presents a new national dataset that assigns historical natural hazard events-flooding, excessive heat, and landslides-to the U.S. railroad network, applying spatial analysis to federal agency data. Existing datasets, such as the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) accident records, only capture reportable accidents and miss less severe but still disruptive hazard exposures. To address this gap, multiple federal databases were integrated to link extreme natural hazard events to...