It is necessary for you to consider the natural disaster risk when investing in a real estate in the United States.
The most important thing to avoid in a natural disaster is human damage, but property damage cannot be ignored.
Especially in the recent years, the natural disaster risk is getting high due to the climate change.
Therefore, there is a risk in investing in real estate in the United States which may be different than those of Japan.
In this article, we will explain the types of the disaster risks and the ways to prepare.

"Natural Disaster" You Should Keep in Mind When Investing in the Real Estate in the United States

The natural disasters have a significant affect on the circumstance of the real estates in the United States.
There have been the large-scale natural disasters in the United States almost every year such as hurricane and flood, and it is a key element to prepare for such natural disasters
In the year of 2017, the total amount of the loss hit the highest record of 306 billion dollars (About 34 trillion and 600 billion yen).
There is a high risk of natural disaster caused by abnormal weather, and there is a tremendous loss on the civic life and economy

Earthquake

There are many earthquakes in California, the Western United States as it is located upon the large fault.
There are not many earthquakes in the Eastern United States as it is further away from the plate boundary.
In 2011, the people are shocked by the earthquake of magnitude 5.8 in the State of Virginia, the East, which its magnitude is not rare in Japan.
The people are very concerned as such a large-scale earthquake occurred in the East for the first time in decades.
The countermeasure against earthquake may not be paid attention in the area with less earthquake.
Thus, there is a high risk of a huge damage by a sudden big earthquake as the preparedness to respond to earthquake may be underestimated.

Flood

There are many victims when the Hurricane Irma landed in the Southern United States in 2017.
Florida with the exceptional loss in that disaster, there are currently many more houses with the raised-floor-style and buildings with pumping functions as the countermeasures.
In addition to hurricane, the king-tide, the natural phenomenal of exceptionally high tide has become a serious issue in the metropolitan area of Miami causing water-overflow from the underground.
As a countermeasure, high-rise buildings with the raised-floor style is becoming the mainstream in thirty to forty years from now.

Hurricane

Alike Japan, hurricane is one of the serious natural disasters in the United States.

The Hurricane Harvey, landed in Texas in 2017, produced a severe heavy rain, causing the enormous economic damage of 180 billion dollars.
There were 251 fatalities in this hurricane, and the economy was severely affected as the oil extraction sites of the prominent oil companies were damaged.
There is a drastic increase in the number of buildings prone to natural disasters such as an earthquake and hurricane in the United States.
The damage by natural disasters may become more serious as many more buildings are developed in the area with high risk of hurricane.

Tornado

It is not common in Japan, but tornado is one of the major natural disasters in the United States.
April in the year of 2011 was knows as the month with the highest tornado strikes in the recorded history in the United States, as there had been more than 600 tornados from Oklahoma to North Carolina.
In the end of that month, there were more than a hundred tornados in two days, and the fatalities reached several hundreds.

Forest Fire

In recent years, the number of cases of a forest fire is increasing.
The serious damages have been caused by the forest fires in California in recent years.
As of September, 2021, more than 80,000 hectares were lost, and over 700 buildings were damaged by fire.
A thunder, the cause of a fire, is becoming easy to occur due to the global warming, and moreover, drought in this area with a strong wind is worsened by the climate change providing the conditions for fires to spread easily.