Approx 49,500 a year
Yes. Many houses are destroyed by tornadoes every year. The very strongest tornadoes rip houses from their foundations and scatter them to the wind.
at least 25,000 per year by tornadoes.
Almost 200 houses were destroyed!
5,000
55,5000 houses
More often property is damaged. Many if not most of the 1,200 tornadoes that occur in the United States each year cause some sort of damage. This amounts to thousands of people having their property damage or destroyed. But only about 60 deaths result from those same tornadoes.
an estimation is about 50,000 houses
They are not common in Great Britain and the rest of Europe, but they do occur. A tornado in Birmingham, England in July of 2005 destroyed a row of houses, but did not result in any fatalities.
Most tornadoes are not strong enough to destroy a typical house and many that are never hit any. Most intense tornadoes may damage some houses but usually do not actually destroy more than a few. However, when a large, violent tornado hits a community, hundreds to thousands of homes may be destroyed.
130,000 homes where destroyed in the earthquake
Tens of thousands of houses were destroyed in the conflict. At least 10,000 empty houses were vandalized. Beyond that, many occupied homes were burned.
About 12 768 houses were completely destroyed and the rest had minor damage.