Avalanches Are the Most Frequent Cause of Weather Fatalities in Almost All Mountainous States

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Credit: Ian Livingston

An interesting map Tweeted last week by Washington Submit meteorologist and USTornadoes.com co-founder Ian Livingston reveals that the โ€œmost frequent cause of weather fatalities by NWS County Warning Areaโ€ is avalanches for the majority of mountainous states.

Along the coastlines, itโ€™s riptides, the south, and California itโ€™s heat, and in the north, itโ€™s cold that results in the most weather-related deaths.

But overall, itโ€™s typically avalanches that create probably the most weather-related heartbreak annually. In the last 20-years, 119 avalanche fatalities have been recorded in Colorado alone, about six every year, the most avalanche-related deaths of any state in that 2-decade period. Alaska is next, with 88 avalanche-related deaths since 1999.


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