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4 out of 5 Americans Affected by Weather-Related Disasters Since 2006, Study Finds

By Climate Guest Blogger on Feb 25, 2012 at 12:20 pm

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Figure 1. County-level map of federally-declared weather-related disasters between 2006 – 2011. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in the Midwest, and heavy rains and snows from Nor’easters, hurricanes, and other storms in the Northeast gave those two regions the most disaster declarations. An interactive version of this map that allows one to click and see the individual disasters by county is on the Environment America website.
by Jeff Masters, reposted from the WunderBlog
Since 2006 , federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people–or roughly four out of five Americans. That’s the remarkable finding of Environment America, who last week released a detailed report on extreme weather events in the U.S.
The report analyzed FEMA data to study the number of federally declared weather-related disasters. More than 15 million Americans live in counties that have averaged one or more weather-related disasters per year since the beginning of 2006. Ten U.S. counties–six in Oklahoma, two in Nebraska, and one each in Missouri and South Dakota–have each experienced ten or more declared weather-related disasters since 2006. South Carolina was the only state without a weather-related disaster since 2006. end quote from:

4 out of 5 Americans Affected by Weather-Related Disasters Since 2006, Study Finds

If you will notice in the map above that only South Carolina was the only state completely free of any disasters since 2006. And two other states were mostly unaffected which were Colorado and Nevada. Every other state had serious Disasters and people seriously affected by these weather related disasters since 2006. Also, if you were choosing where to live where you might not lose your home or members of your family in a weather related disaster over the next decade or so this map might help you find  areas  and places the least affected by disasters between 2006 and now.