I once heard that flash flood actually kills the most people per year in the US of all natural disasters.
@DominicX I have lived through a lot of hurricanes, and if you live in a place that is not below sea level and you are in a well built home, the injury and death rates are very low considering the massive area hurricanes cover. Plus, you get lots of warning usually. Hurricane Wilma was really bad. I had about $30K of damage done to my house, well not really my house, it was the screen enclosure around my pool, but my house was fine, and so were all of the houses around me. I think there were only 4 hurricane related deaths. Hurrican Andrew, which was really bad, demolished thousands of homes only had around 60 related deaths I think. Some of the deaths counted are actually after the fact, like people using generators and getting monoxide posioning, or walking outside, and stepping into a puddle that has a downed live powerline in it, or using candles and catching the house on fire. One tornado can kill 50 people in 10 minutes. A tornado 3 is like a hurrican 5 in terms of windspeed.
Now if you live in a mobile home, then the hurricane is pretty bad, but there is plenty of time to evacuate beforehand. If you live in places like Puerto Rico, hurricanes lead to mudslides, which are awful, houses slide down the mountainside.