Safest place in the USA

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

The recent events in Hawaii made me wonder which is the safest place within the US.
I am not talking about criminal issues; I'm only referring to natural and sanitary aspects, i.e.:

• no volcanic activities
• no earthquakes
• no hurricanes/tornadoes
• no tsunamis
• no floodings
• no wildfires
• no avalanches
• no extreme heat
• no extreme cold
• no severe atmospheric pollution
• no marine pollution
• no groundwater pollution
• no chemical contamination
• no radioactive contamination
• no deadly animals

PS: Wouldn't it be nice if I could have posted this topic in a geography board?

[dead0man]

depending on what you mean by "extreme heat and cold" and maybe "deadly animals", that would describe much of the middle of the country.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

depending on what you mean by "extreme heat and cold" and maybe "deadly animals", that would describe much of the middle of the country.

By extreme climate conditions I mean everything north of Anchorage and places like the cactus state:

[dead0man]

well then most of America is like that.  Certainly where I live is.  I mean, there are places around here that "flood", so don't live there (nobody does but farmers) and I'm sure there are specific locations that are polluted, but again, not where people actually live.  We do get the occasional tornado, but they very rarely kill anybody (5 people in the entire state since 1990).

[HillGoose]

underground in a bunker

[Nyvin]

Southwest Georgia.  Seriously, nothing happens there.

[Del Tachi]

Southwest Georgia.  Seriously, nothing happens there.

Tornadoes.  Which our OP doesn't specifically mention, but maybe that's because he's German?

[BBD]

Pretty much nowhere fits your bill exactly.

[HillGoose]

Pretty much nowhere fits your bill exactly.

except a bunker

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

well then most of America is like that.  Certainly where I live is.  I mean, there are places around here that "flood", so don't live there (nobody does but farmers) and I'm sure there are specific locations that are polluted, but again, not where people actually live.  We do get the occasional tornado, but they very rarely kill anybody (5 people in the entire state since 1990).

How harsh are winters in Nebraska?

[Doimper]

Vermont?

[Person Man]

Vermont?

Really cold there in winter but with maybe Northern Michigan and the driftless region they are the farthest from most disasters.

[James Monroe]

The Safe Placement for People Who Live Underground.

[Dr. Arch]

Madison, WI pretty much checks all the boxes, except it depends on what you mean by "extreme cold" (is -40F extreme even if it's only several times a year) and by "deadly animals," since deer ticks (Lime) are technically deadly and are pretty much everywhere in the U.S.

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

Grand Junction, CO

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

The college campuses where the safe spaces are lmao

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I haven't felt no earthquake, but extreme, dry heat in So. Cali

[Consciously Unconscious]

Upstate SC fits this description pretty well.  No natural disasters (occasionally a very small tornado that doesn't do much damage) and no extreme heat or cold.

[tmthforu94]

There was a study done on this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/media/top-10-safest-us-cities-from-natural-disasters/

#1 is Syracuse, NY

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Southwest Georgia.  Seriously, nothing happens there.

Tornadoes.  Which our OP doesn't specifically mention, but maybe that's because he's German?

Aren't hurricanes and tornadoes basically the same?

[dead0man]

well then most of America is like that.  Certainly where I live is.  I mean, there are places around here that "flood", so don't live there (nobody does but farmers) and I'm sure there are specific locations that are polluted, but again, not where people actually live.  We do get the occasional tornado, but they very rarely kill anybody (5 people in the entire state since 1990).

How harsh are winters in Nebraska?

It sucks some years (this past winter did), but people don't freeze to death very often.

Southwest Georgia.  Seriously, nothing happens there.

Tornadoes.  Which our OP doesn't specifically mention, but maybe that's because he's German?

Aren't hurricanes and tornadoes basically the same?

no, hurricanes are huge things (hundreds of miles across) that build up over days and weeks in the hot parts of the oceans before very slowly (like 5mph) moving in a variety of directions.  Tornadoes are small (dozens of feet usually, sometimes hundreds of feet, rarely a mile or more) faster moving (10-40mph) and while they can only form during very specific types of weather, they just kind of pop up (or technically, drop down....the rise up ones are called "dust devils" and those are rarely big enough to cause damage).  But since we know what those conditions are and our weather tools have evolved to spot them out, we've gotten very good at seeing them BEFORE they form so as long as you have a place to go and are paying attention to the authorities, it's pretty easy to not die from a tornado.

[Mr. Smith]

St. George, Utah

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

St. George, Utah

Doesn't it lie in the desert?

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

no, hurricanes are huge things (hundreds of miles across) that build up over days and weeks in the hot parts of the oceans before very slowly (like 5mph) moving in a variety of directions.  Tornadoes are small (dozens of feet usually, sometimes hundreds of feet, rarely a mile or more) faster moving (10-40mph) and while they can only form during very specific types of weather, they just kind of pop up (or technically, drop down....the rise up ones are called "dust devils" and those are rarely big enough to cause damage).  But since we know what those conditions are and our weather tools have evolved to spot them out, we've gotten very good at seeing them BEFORE they form so as long as you have a place to go and are paying attention to the authorities, it's pretty easy to not die from a tornado.

Okay, then Del Tachi was right. 
I thought hurricanes, tornadoes and typhoons were the same, just defined by their location.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Madison, WI pretty much checks all the boxes, except it depends on what you mean by "extreme cold" (is -40F extreme even if it's only several times a year) and by "deadly animals," since deer ticks (Lime) are technically deadly and are pretty much everywhere in the U.S.

-40° F is extremely cold, yes.
I do consider ticks deadly, but as long as they don't cause a plague (as I described on AAD), their existence still comply with the conditions of my list. Examples for deadly animals are bears, deadly snakes, deadly spiders, scorpions, plagues of ticks, tsetse flies, anopheles mosquitoes, etc.