my mother was in a f5 tornado in 1957 in Fargo ND. It was bad but there wasn’t many people living in Fargo at that time (6 fatatlies all children who were home by themselves). Same with this, if this tornado hits 20 yrs ago in same place probably not as many people die because there wasn’t many people living there.. It all looked like pretty recent development.
Same is true with hurricane damage. Damage is worse than in storms of the pastdecades because there is a lot more development...everywhere.