Big boost for the Buckeye state! Ohio Has most Cities With Lowest Risk Of Climate Disaster

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Realtor.com just published “The 10 U.S. Cities With the Lowest Risk of Climate Disasters” — and seven were in Ohio, and two in nearby states. Only the Pacific Northwest’s Seattle was not close by.

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The study emphasized that “44.8% of U.S. homes are at risk for extreme weather exposure, including extreme heat, wind, flood, and wildfires.” It then examined the metros with the lowest risk.

Akron was first on the list of “safe” cities, with 91% of its homes at low risk. Nearby Cleveland followed it at 89%. Seattle, also at 89%, was the geographical outlier.

Other Ohio cities were Columbus at 88%, Cincinnati at the same level and Dayton at 87%.

Ohio’s Advantages
The Ohio number should not be a surprise. In 2021, an analysis of the best place in the world to live in 2050 due to the ravages of climate change was Michigan.

Ohio and Michigan are viewed as extremely “climate safe” because each is close to a large body of water, which means the drought risk is moderate. Both states are hundreds of miles from hurricanes in the Gulf or Atlantic Ocean and wildfires have plagued neither. Tornadoes are not unheard of but are rare. The same is true with hail.

All of which means that one of the likely changes in population location in the U.S. is migrations from hurricane-plagued states such as Florida, North Carolina and Louisiana and heat-plagued places like Arizona to places north and inland. That includes what could become a large move to Ohio, which has lost population for years.