What is an Orange State?

It is a U.S. state that meets two requirements:

1. Its residents are exposed daily to the threat of a predictable catastrophe (whether natural, accidental or intentional) that would result in mass death or destruction.
2. Its exposure to the threat is exacerbated by severe and glaring deficiencies in any or all of the following:

• Critical infrastructures, especially those designed by previous generations to provide protection.
• Emergency response services.
• Medical services.
• Measures to mitigate the effects of a disaster.
• Continuity planning between government agencies, not-for-profit organizations and private enterprises.
• Control over commercial or residential development along coastlines, fault lines, flood plains and other danger zones.

Roughly 90 percent of the U.S. population resides in Orange States, which comprise what we call "Strike Zone America."