The top five states with the most tornadoes are:TexasOklahomaKansasFloridaNebraska
The five U.S. states with the fewest tornadoes per year on average are Alaska, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Vermont, and Delaware. These states typically experience very low tornado activity compared to the rest of the country.
The top ten states for number of tornadoes areTexasKansasOklahomaFloridaNebraskaIowaIllinoisMissouriColoradoMississippi
There have been at least 6,717 confirmed tornadoes in the U.S. in the past 5 years. This number may actually be higher as the figures for April through June of 2011 are still preliminary. Statistics world wide are not available as many countries to not keep records of their tornadoes, but tornadoes, some of them deadly, have occurred in almost all parts of the world and on every continent except Antarctica.
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In the past five years tornadoes have caused about $30 billion in damage in the U.S., most of it in 2011.
Earthquakes, by far, occur most frequently. On average, each year, there are about 1,800 tornadoes are recorded. The actual number of tornadoes is probably higher, most likely a few thousand, due to the many tornadoes that escape detection. By contrast, between five hundred thousand and 1 million earthquakes are recorded each year, of which 100,000 are strong enough to be felt.
In the latest five-year period (not counting 2011 as statistics are not finalized) the U.S. experienced 6329 tornadoes.
Tornadoes can occur just about anywhere severe thunderstorms can but are very rare in a lot of places.
There have been about 6,300 tornadoes in the U.S. in the past 5 years with more worldwide.
As of April 28, 2015 Georgia has had 125 tornadoes in the past 5 years.
The five states that contained a substantial number of slave-majority counties in 1820 were North Carolina, Mississippi, Maryland, Tennessee and Alabama. These were all considered to be in the south.