{"id":16321,"date":"2016-04-13T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2016-04-14T05:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:19:35","slug":"ranking-the-most-dangerous-natural-hazards-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/ranking-the-most-dangerous-natural-hazards-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the most dangerous natural hazards in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utilizing data from the National Weather Service for the period from 2005 to 2014, research firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherdb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WeatherDB<\/a> analyzed what natural hazards pose the greatest risk to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Heat comes in as the number one most dangerous natural hazard causing 124 deaths and 980 injuries on average per year. Tornadoes, tropical storms \/ hurricanes, floods and rip currents round out the top five. Check out all the details below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ftb-widget\" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"800\" data-widget-id=\"hBHe0Qdubn7\" data-href=\"http:\/\/natural-hazards.weatherdb.com\"><a style=\"font: 14px\/16px arial; color: #3d3d3d;\" href=\"http:\/\/natural-hazards.weatherdb.com\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Hazards | WeatherDB<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/s.graphiq.com\/rx\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/NaturalDisasters.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/NaturalDisasters.jpg\" alt=\"The United States has seen an extraordinary number of billion dollar disasters in 2011.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/NaturalDisasters.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/NaturalDisasters-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/NaturalDisasters-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utilizing data from the National Weather Service for the period from 2005 to 2014, research firm WeatherDB analyzed what natural hazards pose the greatest risk to Americans. Heat comes in as the number one most dangerous natural hazard causing 124 deaths and 980 injuries on average per year. Tornadoes, tropical storms \/ hurricanes, floods and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/ranking-the-most-dangerous-natural-hazards-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ranking the most dangerous natural hazards in the U.S.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16344,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16321\/revisions\/16344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}