Currently the PTIAA is trying to use the 65DNL (65Db Day Night Level) for their estimates of how many people will be affected by the hub. Both the EPA and WHO say that residences, schools, and hospitals should not be built in 55 DNL and above. And for nighttime noise the numbers should be even lower. PTIAA and the Federal Aviation Administration claim that the 65DNL is the standard that should be used for compensation. In fact, only homes in the 70DNL will be eligible for buyout, and those in the 65DNL will only receive money for "soundproofing" their houses. According to their estimates, only a handful of homes will be eligible for buyout or compensation.
If you use the 55DNL as recommended by both the Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization the number jumps to over 10,000 homes affected. At an average of 3.2 people per home, that's 32,000 people affected that should be eligible for some sort of compensation - at taxpayers expense. (In Louisville, Kentucky the noise mitigation costs have exceeded original estimates by over one billion taxpayer dollars, and the buyout is still going on over a decade after the fact.) Keep this in mind as our Guilford County Commissioners are already discussing raising your taxes to make up for the current budget shortfall.

Notes: On the map below, we put a red line over the black dots representing the 55DNL contours to make it easier to pick it out from the others. The 65DNL and the 70DNL lines are closer in to the airport. To get an idea of what areas will be affected when FedEx flies in from the other direction, flip the 55 DNL line around so it's pointing the other direction.

For a larger image suitable for printing (or to make it easier to find your home,) right click here and save the file to your hard drive. Note: This file is about 5Mb in size, and we didn't add the red lines to the black dots of the 55DNL line as in the image below. The 55DNL is the line of black dots farthest from the airport.