Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico Experienced Highest Rate Increase of Natural Disasters, Wildfires are Primary Cause

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Jan 08, 2020, 10:21 ET

SEATTLE, Jan. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- QuoteWizard®, a LendingTree company, and one of the nation's leading online insurance marketplaces, today released a report States with the Highest Rate of Natural Disasters.

The states that saw the largest increase in natural disasters are western states most affected by wildfires. Of the top 15 states with the highest increase in natural disasters, all states except Kansas and Alaska had wildfires as the most common natural disaster.

Key findings:

States with the highest increase in natural disasters were wildfire-prone states.
Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico saw the largest increase in natural disasters with wildfires being the primary cause.
Texas, California and Oklahoma led the nation in natural disasters from 2000 to 2017 with fires being the primary natural disaster.
Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin had the least impact of natural disasters with a combination of flooding and severe storms.
$485 billion in estimated property loss from 2000 to 2017.

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Methodology

QuoteWizard analyzed FEMA natural disaster data to find states that have experienced the highest rate of natural disasters from the year 1980 to 1999 compared with 2000 to 2017. Rankings are based on which states saw the largest increase in total number of disaster declarations from the period of 1980-1999 to 2000-2017. The comparison is meant to show which states experienced the highest increase in natural disasters over the comparative time period.

Rank	State	% increase of natural disasters	Total from 2000-2017	Total from 1980-1999
1	Colorado	1350	58	4
2	Nevada	733	50	6
3	New Mexico	663	61	8
4	Wyoming	600	21	3
5	Oklahoma	578	122	18
6	Montana	514	43	7
7	Arizona	450	44	8
8	Utah	360	23	5
9	California	325	153	36
10	Alaska	311	37	9
11	Kansas	300	40	10
12	Oregon	280	38	10
13	Texas	244	172	50
14	Hawaii	222	29	9
15	West Virginia	217	38	12
16	South Dakota	215	41	13
17	North Dakota	2.1	31	10
18	Nebraska	208	37	12
19	New Hampshire	200	33	11
20	South Carolina	200	21	7
21	Idaho	183	17	6
22	Missouri	179	39	14
23	Washington	165	61	23
24	Kentucky	144	39	16
25	Massachusetts	142	29	12
26	New Jersey	141	29	12
27	Maryland	138	19	8
28	Vermont	133	28	12
29	Virginia	125	36	16
30	Connecticut	122	20	9
31	Georgia	113	32	15
32	Iowa	100	32	16
33	Rhode Island	100	12	6
34	Ohio	92	25	13
35	Arkansas	88	32	17
36	New York	80	47	26
37	Tennessee	79	34	19
38	Maine	78	32	18
39	Minnesota	75	28	16
40	Delaware	71	12	7
41	Mississippi	62	34	21
42	Louisiana	59	35	22
43	Florida	53	66	43
44	Indiana	53	23	15
45	North Carolina	42	27	19
46	Alabama	23	38	31
47	Pennsylvania	20	24	20
48	Wisconsin	18	20	17
49	Illinois	5	23	22
50	Michigan	0	12	12

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