Cities: Skylines 2delivers a realistic city-building experience, attending to citizens' basic needs and enhancing their well-being with secondary elements. The heightened realism brings challenges reminiscent of real-life scenarios. As you dive into this real experience, the incorporation of disasters adds an extra layer that requires your attention to address potential issues before they escalate proactively.

To cope with disasters, you have various options at your disposal. Maintaining constant vigilance allows you to stay one step ahead, and having facilities that can accommodate citizens in any circumstance is crucial for effective disaster management.

The disaster - Tornado in Cities: Skylines 2.

Natural Disasters

As you immerse yourself in your city, you’ll encounter climate and weather changes that introduce various events, potentially resulting in natural disasters. This adds an extra layer of complexity to your city-building experience, elevating the challenge in your gameplay.

Disasters cannot be avoided, andpredicting them is challenging. To cope with disasters, it’s important to prepare emergency infrastructure for various events. Additionally, if desired,there is an option to disable disasters, providing flexibility.

on-off disasters from Map Options in Cities: Skylines 2.

How To Disable Natural Disasters

While you have numerous options to address disasters, it’s worth noting that you can alsodisable or enable natural disasters at any time. This provides you with flexibility in tailoring the gameplay experience to your preferences.

To easily disable or enable disasters, you cancheck or uncheckthe checkbox next to"Natural Disasters" in the map options. You can do thiswhen starting a new mapby selecting the mapor from the main screen’s load game option. From there, choose the specific map you want to modify andopen the map optionsto toggle natural disasters on or off.

Fire and Rescue development tree in Cities: Skylines 2.

If you want to play with disasters enabled,it’s advisable to prepare your city in advance. Taking these precautions before enabling disasters can help prevent potential issues and allow you to fully immerse yourself in the building experience.

How To Deal With Disasters

Handling disasters involvesestablishing various buildings designed to deal with emergencies. This includes structures such as watchtowers and safe places for citizens.

Planning and implementing these buildings is important for effective disaster management in your city. Fortunately, thesedisaster-related buildings are not far from the core infrastructure, making it convenient to integrate them into the progress of your city.

Establish a Hospital in Cities: Skylines 2.

The first buildings you should set up to handle any disaster event arehospitals and clinics. These facilities provide crucial places to address andcare for injured citizensin the aftermath of a disaster. Prioritizing healthcare infrastructure is essential for effective emergency response in your city.

Additionally, you should set upfire stationsalongside the hospitals from the earlier steps in your city’s progress. These stations play an important role inminimizing the chance of fires in the buildingswithin their service area through safety supervision.

Firewatch Tower from fire and rescue in Cities: Skylines 2.

You also have the option to use theFirewatch Tower, which keeps a constant lookout,minimizing the chance of forest fires within one kilometerand alerting firefighters if a fire does break out.

Another effective option for fires is theFirefighting Helicopter Depot, adding a layer of safety to combat fire events, especiallyin places where fire trucks have no access. You can unlock these facilities from the Fire and Rescue development tree.

Small Emergency Shelter in Cities: Skylines 2.

Another valuable building is theRoad Maintenance Depot.This facility acts as a centralhub for road maintenance personnel, their equipment, and vehicles. It is vital for activities likeroad repairs,snow removal, and handlingclean-up after traffic accidents.

When dealing with tornadoes, you have to buildEmergency Shelters. These constructions offer asecure haven for citizensduring tornadoes and other disasters, and they alsowork as storage for cargo for later use.

Early Disaster Warning System from disaster control in Cities: Skylines 2.

All these buildings come to deal with disaster events, minimizing loss or facilitating compensation. However, you also have anEarly Disaster Warning System, a high-end detection system capable ofspotting approaching natural disasters. This allows citizens to seek emergency shelters or prepare buildings for the impending disaster.

Unfortunately, setting up the Early Disaster Warning System comes witha high initial cost of 2.4 millionalongside a considerablemonthly upkeep of up to 216,000.

Dealing with disasters can indeed be complex, especially considering the monthly upkeepcosts that might exceed 1.5 million, excluding the Early Disaster Warning System.

However, as a reminder, you may turn off natural disasters. This can be beneficial for establishing and funding your city, allowing you to enable them later after implementing all the necessary disaster preparedness infrastructure.