Tornado Risk Is Growing and Spreading, Study Shows
It’s not just the “Tornado Alley” any more. Tornadoes are striking in more parts of the U.S., more often, a new study shows.
Experts are enlarging the area of the U.S. they believe is regularly in the path of severe storms, tornadoes, and hail damage, according to a report from CoreLogic.
Tornadoes and the storms that generate them account for 57% of insured catastrophic losses in the U.S. each year. New analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association shows that these storms are probably increasing in frequency, and the region of the country where they strike is growing as well.
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Iowa, for instance, has had more tornadoes touch down per 100 square miles over the past two decades than all but two states - Florida and Kansas. Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, and Mississippi all beat out Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, South Dakota, and North Dakota over that same period.