True but I think if Yellowstone pops its top the whole US, indeed the world, will be affected in a bad way.
I’ve told myself that if I see in the news that Yellowstone has exploded I will drive to the nearest airport ASAP and get on the first flight to New Zealand I can.
But they get your money anyway. We moved from Florida to Maryland, which has an income tax, but overall, our cost of living went down. Insuring our home and cars is cheaper and the sales tax in our county is lower. Florida has all kinds of impact fees, including on new homes and vehicles registered in state for the first time.
I don’t miss Florida in the least and I certainly don’t plan to go there if I don’t have to. We had to fly thru Miami in February, but that hardly counts. As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing there for me.
The school where I taught was in an earthquake zone, so there’s that.
Do forest fires count as natural disasters? Wyoming and Montana get plenty of those, but then, so do a lot of places, and sometimes they’re human-caused.
I think that the number you’d want to look at is relief funds per capita. Nebraska and South Dakota might not need much relief funding simply because there’s nobody there to be affected by a disaster, but if tens of millions of people moved there to enjoy the “safe” environment, the spending following whatever disasters there are would go up.
Do not head to NZ! Volcanoes don’t ya know? it’s in the ring of fire afterall.
Florida RE is looking dicey. Condos especially, buying? Proceed very carefully with moneybags of cash and an exit strategy.
In the opposite corner, Washington State is the same. No income tax but high sales tax and high costs of living. But it’s a heck of a lot nicer to live here.
There are 1.96 million people in Nebraska. That is not ‘nobody there’.
Not literally nobody, no, but it’s still a pretty low-population state, compared with the likes of Florida or New York.
This article doesn’t even mention Wyoming, Montana, or Idaho.
I never said it did. My first post was a guess. Then I found an article on point (sort of).
Have a cookie anyway.
That’s not much more than the population of my county. How is that not just a rounding error?
Obviously there are people who live there but compared to the rest of the US, yes 1.9 million for an entire state is basically “nobody.”
1,961,503 and Warren Buffett
Would Population per square mile be a good way to measure this math question?
Pfft, I couldn’t live in NE; too many people.
And between the cataclysmic earthquake that could happen any day and the volcano that’s going to bury Tacoma under 30 feet of mud, this state (at least the western half of it - maybe people live east of the Cascades, we don’t know, and frankly we don’t want to know) is sitting atop a ticking time bomb itself.
Assuming I’m not being whooshed, where do you live? Alaska? (Hawai’i works for me; we have fewer than 200,000 people total).
Thanks for the warm fuzzies, sunshine! 
Granted it was almost 90 years ago, but central MT got hit with a series of earthquakes that did a fair amount of damage. Here are some pix of Helena.
Snow? Pfffffffffft!
But only One I care about! 