disaster area
noun1
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.
- 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.2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe: