Where to move to avoid all natural disasters?

[Anonymous]

Any specific area that would not be prone to any, but also still have a close large-ish airport, good hospitals, somewhat scenic and has some fun things going on? Schools do not matter.

[Anonymous]

I feel like DC has it pretty good. We don’t have earthquakes or wildfires like the west, tornadoes like the Midwest, hurricanes like the south, or blizzards like the north. We just kinda get wimpy (in a good way!) versions of everything.

[Anonymous]

Right where we are in the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Western North Carolina was one of those places but climate change caught up with them

[Anonymous]

Main Line philadelphia or bucks county

[Anonymous]

Michigan is acknowledged as one of the least natural disaster-prone areas in the US.

That said, the PPs are right that the DC area is in pretty good shape. Our worst severe weather is likely to be the 2012 Derecho-level and the worst Hurricane impacts are from 1954's Hazel (Isabel 2003 as a more recent example).

[Anonymous]

No longer possible OP. Things have changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right where we are in the DMV.

+1. It's getting hotter and we may have more mosquito borne disease in the future. But it's too wet for serious wildfires, too flat and inland for serious flooding, not on big fault lines, mostly not right for tornadoes (although they happen). But we are somewhat more of a target for attacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like DC has it pretty good. We don’t have earthquakes or wildfires like the west, tornadoes like the Midwest, hurricanes like the south, or blizzards like the north. We just kinda get wimpy (in a good way!) versions of everything.

This.

[Anonymous]

My father specifically moved to the dmv area to avoid natural disaters

[Anonymous]

Pa

[Anonymous]

DMV is one of the luckier regions to not have any disasters if you live in the East Coast. I'm surprised we haven't had a bad hurricane in our area since Sandy (I believe)

[Anonymous]

You just can’t avoid them altogether. So I’d rather be faced with hurricanes or snowstorms because at least they’re predictable and we can evacuate if need be.

[Anonymous]

DMV is prett safe from natural disasters. But you pay a price in the horrible summers and mosquitos, who are getting worse. At a certain point the risk of mosquito borne diseases and having to deal with them for 5+ months may outweigh risk of severe weather for me, in which case I'm moving either to Maine or Washington.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I already dislike the swampy summers here and it's only going to get worse, but otherwise DC isn't bad in terms of natural disasters. I think there are some non-mountainous parts of upstate NY that would also be relatively safe (and cooler), although I'd also avoid a couple areas near the lake that get hit really hard from lake effect snow. I have family in Rochester and while they get a fair amount of snow each year it's nothing like the crazy events the Buffalo area seems to get.