changeofpace (Austin: tornadoes, living in, relocating to)

[changeofpace]

Another consideration that we looked at in relocating to TX, was wild fires, a threat few even think about. Austin TX alone, has 50,000 residence living in the western hills that would be seriously affected by a wild fire. Matter of fact, wild fires are more of a threat for most of TX than hurricanes are for the coast of southern TX. We have looked at everything that may affect our "golden years" in TX.

[KewGee]

In the entire state of Texas in the past 57 years, 116 wild/forest fires have been reported with 15 deaths. That really isn't frightening to me.

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You are correct. There have only been 30 hurricanes and tropical storms in that time period with 31 deaths.

This surprised me; it looks like you've surely been doing your homework.

One can always stay away from locating to the hurricane prone areas, but wildfires can break out any place. Most of them though are just brush fires as Texas doesn't have the trees to really constitute a forest fire per se.

To be honest with you though, I'd worry more about tornadoes and flooding. Texas has had so many of each of them over the past 57 years that one can't even obtain a count of them covering the whole state while doing a search. One has to search tornadoes and floods county by county.