Is the total solar eclipse occur quite often?

Answer 1

There are generally two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses each year. Sometimes there are as little as one; on rare occasions, there can be as many as five, but two is most common.

However, in a solar eclipse the shadow of the Moon hits the Earth. There's only a small area of the Earth that's affected by any one eclipse, and you won't see an eclipse if you're not in that small area. So for any particular spot on the Earth, there may be a couple of hundred years between eclipses.

Sometimes you can get lucky. There's an area in Missouri which will see two total solar eclipses 7 years apart, in 2017 and 2024.