South Dakota is prone to weather disasters

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – From floods to wildfires, and blizzards to hail, South Dakota sees its fair proportion of pure disasters yearly, rating twelfth within the county, not removed from hurricane-ravaged Florida.

WalletHub in contrast 50 states throughout two key metrics to rank the states for the way susceptible they’re to climate disasters. These metrics are the variety of local weather disasters inflicting no less than $1 billion in injury since 1980, and the loss quantity per capita of these disasters. South Dakota ranks twelfth for the variety of disasters between 1980 to 2022. The state is tied at primary for loss per capita.

That loss contains all the pieces from crops being destroyed or automobiles broken throughout hailstorms to livestock misplaced throughout blizzards. It even contains lack of houses throughout wildfires.

Over the past a number of years, South Dakota has seen some historic climate occasions comparable to a three-day blizzard in October 2013, the June sixth derecho which had wind experiences of greater than 100 mph. and the thunderstorms that produced grapefruit sized hail on June 12.

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