How Natural Disasters Make Entire Counties Poorer

Reader Contribution by Kayla Matthews
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It’s no secret that areas affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes deal with damages that can total billions of dollars. However, recent long-term research indicates that natural disasters have a much greater impact than the initial financial ones caused by the damage.

As a team of scientists discovered when they looked at a database of information from 1920 to 2010, natural disasters adversely affect the wealth of entire counties.

The Risk Level Varies by Geographic Location

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