# How many people die each year in the US from hurricanes and toradoes?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 2, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-die-each-year-in-the-us-from-hurricanes-and-toradoes/703323 "2014-11-02T04:02:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-die-each-year-in-the-us-from-hurricanes-and-toradoes/703323/1 "2014-11-02T04:02:42Z")

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How many people die each year in the US from hurricanes? How many people die each year in the US from tornadoes? How many people die each year in the US from tornadoes that are not in the mid west?

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-die-each-year-in-the-us-from-hurricanes-and-toradoes/703323/2 "2014-11-02T06:09:46Z")

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Click on this and then on the year:

> **[List of tornado events by year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year)**
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> The following is a list of tornado events by year.

It will tell you the number of deaths for each year.

Click on this and then look at the table at the bottom of the article:

> **[Atlantic hurricane season](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season)**
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> The Atlantic hurricane season is the period in a year, from June 1 through November 30, when tropical or subtropical cyclones are most likely to form in the North Atlantic Ocean. These dates, adopted by convention, encompass the period in each year when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the basin. Even so, subtropical or tropical cyclogenesis is possible at any time of the year, and often does occur. 
> Worldwide, a season's climatological peak activity takes place in late summer, when the ...

It gives the number of deaths for each year.

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**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-die-each-year-in-the-us-from-hurricanes-and-toradoes/703323/3 "2014-11-03T05:57:49Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> Click on this and then on the year:
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> [List of tornado events by year - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year)
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> It will tell you the number of deaths for each year.
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> Click on this and then look at the table at the bottom of the article:
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> [Atlantic hurricane season - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane_season)
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> It gives the number of deaths for each year.

I see a list of fatalities for hurricanes but not tornadoes

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-die-each-year-in-the-us-from-hurricanes-and-toradoes/703323/4 "2014-11-03T09:45:06Z")

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Click on this link:

> **[List of tornado events by year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year)**
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> The following is a list of tornado events by year.

So, for instance, click on the year 2013 in that article. You’ll get an article about 2013. Within that article is this sentence:

\> 111 fatalities have been confirmed worldwide in 2013: 53 in the United States, 31  
\> in Bangladesh, 24 in China, and 3 in Turkey.