The Deadliest Natural Disaster to Ever Strike Your State

"Amazon ( NASDAQ: AMZN) recently began developing a Disaster Relief Hub located in Southern California to address the needs of communities affected by natural disasters, such as wildfires. The extent of wildfires in the U.S. each year continues to grow. Through its Disaster Relief Hub, Amazon hopes to more rapidly provide disaster mitigation equipment, such as shelter supplies, hygiene kits, food, tarps, and first aid to affected areas."

"Because of the great geographical diversity across the U.S., each region is susceptible to different disasters. The West Coast is ripe with these wildfires that the northern U.S. almost never sees. Likewise, southern and East Coast states are frequently hit with shattering hurricanes, the likes of which rarely occur elsewhere in the nation. As a whole, America is an annual victim of a large range of natural disasters, including tornadoes, flash floods , fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, mud slides, and avalanches."

Amazon recently began developing a Disaster Relief Hub in Southern California to address needs of communities affected by natural disasters and to more rapidly deliver shelter supplies, hygiene kits, food, tarps, and first aid. Wildfires in the U.S. are increasing in extent each year, with the worst modern large-acreage California wildfires occurring in the last decade and climate change expected to increase prevalence. Natural disasters in the United States vary by region and include tornadoes, flash floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides, avalanches, and fires. Geographic placement affects local risk and fatality counts, ranging from thousands of deaths in the 1990 Galveston Hurricane to eight deaths in Maine’s deadliest ice storm.

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