{"id":3482,"date":"2005-09-06T10:49:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T17:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/06\/safety-10-bestworst-places-to-live-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:24:34","slug":"safety-10-bestworst-places-to-live-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/06\/safety-10-bestworst-places-to-live-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety: 10 best\/worst places to live in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7782,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.msn.com\\\/id\\\/9131261&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20121020193154\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.msn.com\\\/id\\\/9131261\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 01:03:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 01:47:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 01:47:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7783,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hanford.gov&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310010903\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.hanford.gov\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.hanford.gov\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 01:47:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 01:47:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7784,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/buzz\\\/archives\\\/005627.html?wbfrom=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>MSNBC crunched some numbers to come up with lists of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9131261\/\" title=\"MSNBC: Safety first: The best places to live in the U.S.\">ten safest and most dangerous places to live in the US<\/a> in terms of weather and natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The ten safest:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Honolulu, Hawaii<\/li>\n<li>Boise City, Idaho<\/li>\n<li>Santa Fe, N.M.<\/li>\n<li>Yakima, Wash.<\/li>\n<li>Spokane, Wash.<\/li>\n<li>Richland-Kennewick-Pasco, Wash.<\/li>\n<li>Medford-Ashland, Ore.<\/li>\n<li>Corvallis, Ore.<\/li>\n<li>Salem, Ore.<\/li>\n<li>Las Cruces, N.M.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And the ten most risky:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Monroe, La.<\/li>\n<li>Dallas, Tex.<\/li>\n<li>Jackson, Miss.<\/li>\n<li>Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla.<\/li>\n<li>West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Fla.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City, Mo.<\/li>\n<li>Elkhart-Goshen, Ind.<\/li>\n<li>Tulsa, Okla.<\/li>\n<li>Memphis, Tenn.<\/li>\n<li>Shreveport-Bossier City, La.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Pacific Northwest seems to be a pretty good bet, all told, with six locations on the list, three in WA and three in OR&#8230;seven, if you count ID as part of the PNW. Amusingly, though, one of the WA locations is the Tri-Cities area, home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanford.gov\/\" title=\"Department of Energy Hanford Site\">Hanford Nuclear Reservation<\/a> &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/buzz\/archives\/005627.html?wbfrom=rss\" title=\"Seattle PI Buzzworthy: Safest cities\">as the Seattle PI points out<\/a>, these are lists looking at <em>natural<\/em> disasters.<\/p>\n<p>(via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/buzz\/archives\/005627.html?wbfrom=rss\" title=\"Seattle PI Buzzworthy: Safest cities\">Seattle PI Buzzworthy<\/a> blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC crunched some numbers to come up with lists of the ten safest and most dangerous places to live in the US in terms of weather and natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}