disaster area

English

Noun

disaster area (plural disaster areas)

1. An area that has been the site of a natural disaster that receives an official designation entitling residents and organizations within that area to receive relief and benefits.

   Much of the central Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area after hurricane Katrina.

2. (also figuratively) An area that looks like one that has suffered a natural disaster.

   Your room is a disaster area.

   • 2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe‎^[1]:

     And while our discourse might be a disaster area, the imaginative vistas of the Internet are far more vast than the modest plot of our feeds.

Translations

area that has been declared to suffer of consequences of a disaster

• Arabic: منطقة منكوبة
• Dutch: rampgebied (nl) n
• Finnish: tuhoalue
• French: zone sinistrée f, région sinistrée f
• German: Katastrophengebiet (de) n
• Polish: obszar klęski m
• Russian: зо́на бе́дствия f (zóna bédstvija)
• Swedish: katastrofområde n