Your state is an absolute disaster.

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Neon Pirate

Neon Pirate

My state being a disaster has more to do with my fellow citizens and the local inability to drive than it does with mother nature!
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Woo Hoo! most disaster prone state!

I still don't see how TX has 1000+ hurricanes in 50 years. Must be municipalities or counties affected by hurricanes.
 
strawman

strawman

Yes, since the late 60's there is one disaster declaration per county. So, for instance, hurricane Katrina itself resulted in 179 declarations, and hurricane Rita resulted in 318 disaster declarations - and those were just for the actual on-the-ground damage.

They have the full dataset available. Looking, for instance, at Washtenaw county, where I live, I find there have only been 8 disaster declarations. Storms, tornadoes, flooding, snowstorms, and the 2003 northeast power outage apparently resulted in a disaster declaration. Further, we had a disaster declaration titled, "Hurricane Katrina Evacuation" another 2,695 counties in the US had (just short of the 3k counties that exist in the US).

Keep in mind that FEMA declares a lot of disasters based on the idea that a state may need federal aid, or even federal troops (national guard, for instance) in some cases where no physical damage took place. The Evacuation was probably so each county could pull on national funds in order to help out with Katrina in various ways.

So, unfortunately, that map doesn't tell a good story since it probably includes the disaster declarations that weren't actually due to a disaster in that state.
 
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Joe Johnson

Minnesota has had 87 Hurricane disasters, so it's obviously not based on actual hurricane touchdowns.
 
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