And to see the human effects, we ticked the 'casualties' option, too. We also enabled the new radioactive-fallout settings based on local weather. When we switched the height to 'surface burst,' a very different picture emerged: The thermal and air-blast zones shrank, but the fireball nearly doubled in area, and the radiation zone nearly tripled. A note toward the bottom of our Nukemap results explained: 'Your choice of burst height is too high to produce significant local fallout.' Casualties and radioactive-fallout zones

'They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation.'Ĭlicking the 'radioactive fallout' option didn't produce any exposure zones for this hypothetical explosion.

'Third-degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves,' Nukemap says. Nuclear Fallout Map, hitting west coast-U.S.- FALSE MAP Can anyone confirm or dispute this Perhaps readers can forward to someone in NOAA or someone in weather at ERAU for map of weather, wind patterns, etc.

Thermal radiation (6.54 miles wide): This region is flooded with skin-scorching ultraviolet light, burning anyone within view of the blast.

'Injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread,' Nukemap says.

Air blast (4.64 miles wide): This shows a blast area of 5 pounds per square inch, which is powerful enough to collapse most residential buildings and rupture eardrums.

Choose any location in the scrolling list - its icon on the map will be highlighted by a red. View the locations of all marked places, bobbleheads, and unique items on the map.

Radiation (1.24 miles wide): A nuclear bomb's gamma and other radiation are so intense in this zone that 50% or more of people die within 'several hours to several weeks,' according to Nukemap. The game takes place in the year 2277, 200 years after the Great War, on the East Coast of what used to be the United States.

Fireball (0.56 miles wide): In the area closest to the bomb's detonation site, flames incinerate most buildings, objects, and people.

Fallout west coast map