[Kip Russell]

Overlay these two maps and come to your own conclusions:

[SES1066]

Pardon me, but does Texas in your ‘Population’ map really look like that?

And, just because Tornados may be rare, the rare ones can still be whoppers.

Right now, with Hurricane prediction improving like it is, I can get me and mine out of the way a lot better than anything other than floods.

[3Fingas]

My area looks pretty good according to those maps, but a third overlay of precipitation is what kills us around here (central Texas).

[Kip Russell]

No earthquake risk (or any other natural disasters) in my part of Colorado, but Denver is uncomfortably close.

[Axenolith]

I’m getting a place in one of the white counties. There is a holocene normal fault right in the driveway.

[Clinging Bitterly]

My chosen locale is in the supposed "high" earthquake zone, though I have lived my whole life there (almost) and have barely felt a shudder in that time. Everybody says the big one will come and maybe so but I view the possibility of injury from one as very slight at most in a rural or semi rural setting not laying below any dams or the like.

My population density will be in that 7-88.3 per square mile range and closer to the 7 but not deserted. With very fertile land, abundant water, year round mild weather, and a variety of plentiful fish & wildlife, self sufficiency in small enclaves will be doable, and indeed, folks are already (or still) doing it there.

There is a lot to be said for familiarity and I know the area's benefits and hazards very well.