New Measure of Climate's Toll: Disasters Are Now Common Across US - The New York Times - 0 views
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a report released on Wednesday uses a different measure: Which parts of the country have suffered the greatest number of federally declared disasters?
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That designation is reserved for disasters so severe, they overwhelm the ability of state and local officials to respond. The report finds that disasters like these have become alarmingly common.
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From 2011 to the end of last year, 90 percent of U.S. counties have experienced a flood, hurricane, wildfire or other calamity serious enough to receive a federal disaster declaration, according to the report, and more than 700 counties suffered five or more such disasters.
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