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EF5 tornado can be every bit as destructive as a wildfire and in some areas they recur pretty frequently.
by 20after4 2y ago
EF5 tornado can be every bit as destructive as a wildfire and in some areas they recur pretty frequently.
- camgunz 2y agoCosts since 2003 seem comparable (~62 billion for both). Tornadoes do outpace wildfires in immediate deaths 752 to 270, but the smoke from the wildfires kills 10000s more after the fact. I've done a pretty bad comparison here though; there are a lot of differences between tornadoes and wildfires and the places they happen. What I feel confident in saying is you are very unlikely to be seriously affected by a tornado, even if you live in a place where they happen frequently. But if you live in a place where wildfires happen frequently, you're way more likely to be seriously affected. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245068810/wildfire-smoke-contributes-to-thousands-of-deaths-each-year-in-the-u-s https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245068810/wildfire-smoke-con...
- 20after4 2y agoAgreed. And I personally prefer living in an area with tornados over wild fires or hurricanes. That's one of the reasons why I stay in Missouri and would never move to southern California, Florida or the Texas coast.