Death Map Shows Areas of U.S. Where Mother Nature is Especially Brutal
If real estate is about location, location, location, you might want to check out a “death map” that was issued by International Journal of Health Geographics. It shows areas of the U.S. where people have a higher tendency to die due to forces of Mother Nature. In the map above, red means a higher than average risk of dying and blue means a lower risk level.
According to this Reuters article, the #1 killer is heat. That means regions in the South are the deadliest, followed by the northern Great Plains region (heat and drought) and the Rocky Mountain region (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico) where winter weather and floods are the top killers.
The safest areas? Parts of the Midwest or cities in the urbanized Northeast (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, D.C).
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