A Resilient Future for JPL

Environmental risks pose serious challenges to the resilience of JPL and its surrounding communities, affecting infrastructure, operations, and workforce well-being. This report offers JPL’s first comprehensive assessment of local environmental hazards and institutional resilience, underscoring both the complexity and urgency of these issues.

While climate variability is driving long-term shifts in temperature, precipitation, and extreme events, JPL and NASA also face a range of more immediate risks – heat waves, poor air quality, severe storms, and wildfires – that can stress existing infrastructure and operations.

This report outlines practical, forward-looking strategies to help JPL adapt and prepare, ensuring the continuity of its mission and safety of its workforce.