The 10 Most Disaster-Prone States

Homeowners in Rhode Island, you’re in trouble. The state is second only to Florida in risk of natural hazards—fun events such as flood, wildfire, tornado, and storm surge. So says a new report from CoreLogic, an Irvine (Calif.)-based property information and data provider, which ranked the continental U.S. on risk of eight major weather events, plus sinkholes.

In calculating these risks, the probability of an event and the frequency of such events were contributing factors, along with each hazard’s contribution to damage. Florida, which earned the highest score, at 94.51, is at regular risk from hurricane winds, storm surge, flooding, sinkholes, and—along with all that water damage—wildfires. Louisiana, California, and Massachusetts, in that order, rounded out the top five, followed by Kansas, Connecticut, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Delaware.