In 2011 there were 552 tornado fatalities in the United States, tying it as the second deadliest tornado year in U.S. history.
794 deaths in the year 1925. 695 of those deaths were from a single tornado.
On average tornadoes cause 60 deaths and and about $500 million dollars in damage each year.
1925. There were 794 tornado deaths in the U.S. that year, 695 from a single tornado.
The United States suffers 60 tornadoes deaths in an average year. This number is gradually falling as warnings improve. Globally tornado deaths are generally not much higher as the United States sees most of the violent tornadoes.
Statistics for other countries are not available, but for the U.S. the year with the least tornado fatalities (at least since 1875) was 1910 with only 12 recorded deaths from tornadoes.
Based on statistics from the years 1950-2010 Texas has the most tornado fatalities averaging about 9 per year. However, this varies from year to year depending mostly on the distribution of strong tornadoes . For example, in 2010 Texas had no tornado fatalities, and instead Mississippi took first place with 13 deaths. By contrast in 1953 Texas had 150 tornado deaths.
In the five year period of 2007-2011 tornadoes killed 826 people in the U.S. It should be noted that 552 of those deaths were in 2011, which is now tied with 1936 as the second deadliest tornado year in U.S. history..
There have been 555 tornado fatalities in the Unites States in the past 10 years.
1989 when a single tornado in Bangladesh killed over 1,300 people. The deadliest tornado year in the U.S. was 1925 when a single tornado killed 695 people.
In The average tornado there are no deaths. On average the U.S. gets over 1,200 tornadoes per year but only about 60 tornado deaths. The average death toll for a killer tornado (at least for the U.S.) is between 2 and 3, but this is skewed upwards by a handful of tornadoes with large death tolls. The typical death toll for a killer tornado is 1.
The U.S. averages 19 tornado deaths in May. However, the actual figure varies greatly from year to year. For example in May of 2005 there were no deaths from tornadoes in the U.S. (most of the tornadic deaths that year were in November). By contrast, in May of 2011 tornadoes in the U.S. killed 178 people with all but 20 deaths of those coming from a single tornado.
There is over a billion deaths in the world in a year. Im in 5th grade and i know that. But dont feel bad .I did not know that entill last year