disaster area

1. 1.

   a region whose population is affected by a general disaster

   Broaderarea

Questions about disaster area

What does disaster area mean?

disaster area means "a region whose population is affected by a general disaster".

Is disaster area a common word?

disaster area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.