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The Tide Line Is a Route: Overlaying Refugee Pathways on US Coastal Risk Maps

The Tide Line Is a Route: Overlaying Refugee Pathways on US Coastal Risk Maps

As the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season enters its final weeks, US coastal cities still tend to treat climate displacement as a future emergency rather than a present mapping problem. Preparedness plans should overlay Caribbean and Central American displacement routes with domestic climate-risk data and local service capacity before the next season, not after it.