North Carolina has 120,000 people currently at risk of coastal flooding and 45,000 more will be at risk by 2050. Like most states, North Carolina has taken considerable steps to assess its vulnerability to climate change-related coastal flooding and to begin to make plans to address it, but so far the state has not taken any steps to implement adaptations.
For more information on how prepared North Carolina is for its growing coastal flooding threat, read the detailed state summary.