Texas A&M Geography’s Tyler Fricker recently published research providing insights into where tornado casualty rates are highest and how to improve casualty prediction models.
Why are tornado casualty rates higher in some regions than others?
Tyler Fricker, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University, recently published research in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers that gives insights into tornado casualty rates across the United States and casualty prediction models.
“My interest was in trying to better understand tornado casualty events across the country,” Fricker said. “We have a pretty good understanding of some broad-scale factors that influence tornado casualties, but what we don’t have is a great understanding of the community-level or placed-based factors that might influence those casualties.”
The goal of Fricker’s research was to define and identify particularly devastating tornadoes and the communities that were most impacted by those tornados.
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