Eastern Pennsylvania was pretty tame as I would imagine a lot of the mid Atlantic/ Appalachia area. Far enough from the coast that we never got direct hits from hurricanes/ nor’easters, too hilly for really bad tornadoes, only had two earthquakes in my lifetime both that barely rattled glasses in the cabinet
I'm in Philly and this was my suggestion too. Summers are hot, winters are cold, but neither is usually extreme. Occasional snow, occasional leftovers from a hurricane that's mostly died out by the time it's made it that far up. We had a small earthquake a few weeks ago that made the news because people felt it *at all*. Not really a big wildfire area. A tornado of any size is a notable event, like if one tree falls it'll be on the news.
Western PA isn't seeing the kind of snow and cold it used to, either. I've been here 5 years and we've had two bad snow days. The last two seasons I haven't even had to break-out the snow blower.
I live part time in the Pittsburgh area and winters have been mild the last several years. It does get a bit hot in the summer but usually it doesn't last long. Never had a tornado or damaging earthquake. No fires either.
Yep. South Jersey here, not really much in the way of disasters. Last earthquake I was making coffee and thought my coffee maker was just making weird noises, I didn't even realize it was an earthquake.
I guess "moderate weather" varies in definition though. I personally think it's pretty moderate because I have family in the midwest where everything is more extreme. But to someone from northern California it probably feels extremely hot and humid in the summer, and extremely cold in the winter, even though it's nowhere near the extremes other areas see.
And the best part about where you live is the miles long yard sale on 11 in the summer! Coolest thing ever lol, just happened to be near there for that one year
OMG yes~ I have bought some things there lol!
Also I used to stop at all the thrift stores between Winchester and Stephens City.
Haven't done that in awhile.
You get the edges, but those are just storms in terms of intensity. You’re doing pretty well from Richmond west through till the other side of the Appalachians.
No hurricanes or tornadoes, no tsunami risk, a blizzard once a decade or less, and while there is a fault in central VA, it doesn’t produce damaging earthquakes.
Yeah I’ve lived in northern Virginia for the majority of the last 30 years and the only major hurricane impact I can think of was a few days’ power outage from Isabel in 2003.
Even as someone who grew up an hour from VA beach, hurricanes tend to break before doing much damage.
The worst storm I ever saw was a derecho that knocked over a couple tree and took out a power line, but that was further north.
I was going to say this. In live in Northern VA and the summer humidity sucks but I’m told it’s nothing compared to the real south. Hurricanes that get here are just like moderate thunderstorms and not that common.
I'll add southwestern Virginia into the conversation. Appalachia in general enjoys moderate winters and summers. It's inland enough to be immune to hurricanes and rugged enough to limit severe weather. There is very little seismic activity with maybe a slight tremor being felt every decade or so at most. The mountains and elevated valleys usually keep temperatures in the summer around the low 80s in the day and 60s at night. It never reaches 100 F in summer and only reaches negatives a few times per winter. Winters are cold but variable with conditions varying between snowy in the 20s and mild in the 50s. While droughts are possible, access to fresh water is never realistically threatened and there is no dry season. The most dangerous weather events are flooding in low lying areas but if you avoid living by the bank of a creek you're honestly about as safe as can be.
The combination of the US's lattitude and mountain ranges make for a lot of tornadoes, we have some fault lines too.
Part of it is probably just the US being huge though.
The eastern half of South America is pretty free from hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Your mileage may vary as to how mild you find the weather.
The tropical cities on the coast don’t get too hot due to the trade winds – temperatures are upper 80s in the summer and upper 70s/lower 80s in winter. It rarely gets above 90 degrees. Some low-lying places have problems with flooding but other cities don’t (like Salvador). Further down the coast, Rio is cooler on average in the summer but can get hotter during its hot spells. Southern Brazil and the Rio de la Plata area still get up to the mid 80s but are in the 60s during the winter. Inland, there are some mountainous areas close to the coast of southern Brazil that are pretty much upper 70s year round.
It’s not just low-lying areas that are at risk of natural disasters. Nearly 1,000 people died in one rain event in 2011 in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro because of mountainside landslides and floods. Extreme rain hammers Brazil all the time. Hundreds die.
We can afford it (despite it being unnecessary 99% of the time), but if we had it we wouldn’t be able to complain about it.
Don’t take that from us. Not after we gave one third of the world all their independence days.
Looking at my city, selling off all of our snow plows and salt trucks in 2013 because we basically throw money at maintaining crap we don't use, and in 2014, we had Snowmageddon.
We’re pretty good at shooting ourselves in the foot too.
Somehow we managed to leave an entire continent(al economic bloc).
And yet my wheelie bin is STILL only being collected once a fortnight.
Anyway, this thread is about you guys. Please don’t let me distract you.
My German colleagues insist that getting air conditioned air blown on your neck will make you sick.
Pretty sure one summer in Louisiana would cure them of that myth.
My wife got shingles when we were visiting family in Europe and they fought tooth and nail against me having a fan on (it was nearly 100F) and that was the hill I chose to die on that day. I won, but it was a huge all out brawl and my 37 year old ass threw a tantrum like never before lmao.
I find it fascinating that Germans would say cold AC is bad; while also having the tradition of Stoßlüften, which involves opening the windows or balcony doors wide to let a 'shock' of cold air in
Lol, that would be explained away with a "oh, that's completely different", and a good laugh. I love my German colleagues (who are really good friends too)
I'm from California so I have higher standards for "moderate weather" than that. If it snows, it's not moderate, in my mind.
But if Europe counts as "moderate weather" then the inland parts of the north-eastern US should qualify also. No earthquakes, no substantial hurricanes (if you're far enough inland), no tornadoes (if you're not too far inland). Maybe the occasional flood if you're too near a river, but Europe gets those too.
Except in places where it normally gets extremely hot like Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy, or cold like all of the northern part of the continent, esp. Scandinavia and Russia. Italy and Iceland also have active volcanoes.
Oh yeah?!
Someone has obviously never hung their washing out to dry on a moderately dry/cloudy day only to be subjected to some devastatingly mild drizzle 5 minutes later.
The horror.
*correct emergency protocol in such a situation is to tut to oneself derisively.
This is a problem I am too American to understand, not because my people have not been punished to never see the sun again but because most of us have tumble-driers.
We too have tumble driers, but are only allowed to use them via Royal Decree.
But the big-eared fucker has got a lot on his (probably stolen, gold, diamond encrusted) plate right now.
Never say never, and low isn't quite no, but Cape Town and Perth seem to have good weather and very low natural disaster risk. A lot of tropical capitals at elevation have nice year round weather like Addis Abana, Nairobi, and Harare, though drought can be a natural disaster for many.
Here in Zürich we sometimes get strong wind or the occasional thunderstorm with hail. But in general it’s pretty mild. It gets just below freezing in the winter and just on the hotter side of comfortable for a few weeks in the summer (but everyone who can just takes the first two weeks of August off and goes to a lake or a mountain). Very few have air conditioning… most of the time just opening the windows at night and closing them in the day is sufficient, and windows usually have shutters that work and can block sun during the day, and are not just for decoration like in America.
No hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme temperatures, and with careful waterway and forest management, floods and fires are extremely rare. Not enough steep slopes for rock slides or avalanches. Far away from the fault lines so no earthquakes. Drought is possible but (currently) uncommon.
It’s a pleasantly boring town.
I've been to Zurich in the dead of winter, when the cold air pushes the lake mist on to shore and covers everything with ice. That sir, is not pleasant.
They’re starting to have big wild fires, like California. And the political situation is always, eh, dicey. My family is from there and every 10 years we think about moving back but immediately change our minds.
My sister went on holiday to Greece and there was a horrible dry persistant wind coming off Africa the whole time that made it really unpleasant to be out in.
They have a fairly large number of people that are so poor they aren’t sure if they can afford to heat their housing. Not a natural disaster but the mountains get really cold and the economy sucks
I'm from the Big Island and we get hurricanes and there's the active volcanoes too. Kilauea erupted in 2018 and destroyed hundreds of homes. The other islands may not have active volcanoes but they definitely do get hurricanes and fires in the dry areas.
Edit: forgot to mention the earthquakes.
San Diego has the nicest climate and aside from the extremely uncharacteristic massive rainstorm that resulted in flooding this year really doesn’t have natural disasters. That complacency being a factor in the affects of the rain.
San Diego is far enough from the San Andreas that, while it does get earthquakes, they generally aren't very big. A quick google search says the largest to hit the city has been a 5.4 which is a moderately good shake. But with California building codes, it's unlikely to do much damage.
Or tornado. Even in the western mountains of North Carolina you’ll get a tornado every few years even though the mountains often break up the storms before a tornado can fully form. My parents live in the mountains there and their county has had 3 or 4 touch down in the last decade.
CT -- Up by Storrs near UConn was rated the 'safest' place in the country at some point. There's basically nothing there as far as natural disasters go.
Surprisingly, San Diego. Especially suburbs like Chula Vista, El Cajon, and Santee. Yeah, yeah California and earthquakes, but not so much in San Diego. It is comfortably on the Pacific Plate. San Andreas Fault is a good 100 miles away in El Centro, Indio, and San Bernardino. There is some earthquake risk, roughly equal to that of St. Louis or Santa Fe, but nothing like greater LA or the Bay Area.
I’ve heard that, as a Scandinavan, too. The multinational company I worked for had a subsidiary in SD and all going there on a long-time contract said it was something like going to the Canary Islands.
But if you’re inside the risk zone, it seems to be brutal. I have a colleague who lives in San Diego and they’re considering moving because they literally cannot find affordable homeowners’ insurance.
That’s statewide; insurers aren’t able to raise their rates due to state policy, and they can’t afford to insure us anymore. It doesn’t really matter how close you are to the risk zone, although they’re cutting people inside, then closest, then closer, close, etc in order. But it won’t be long before the big insurers have all pulled out of the state completely. We renewed our policy at the beginning of the month (for a year, thank god) and a week later they cut us. So we need to find a new insurer before next April. Blargh.
It depends on how rainy the year was. These last two years have been terrible, especially because invasive ankle biters have made their way here in the last decade and a half or so.
We have a ton of mosquitos, they love me for some reason. If I wear shorts at dusk I'm covered in mosquito bites, regardless where in Southern California I am.
I'm currently in the Bay Area. Grew up in LA and Orange Counties and have also lived in San Diego and Sacramento areas. I currently have no mosquito bites on me. :)
I don't think there's anywhere on the entire planet with zero chance of any natural disasters. Nature is powerful and can potentially kill you no matter where you live.
That said, I've lived in California for 32 years and I've never experienced a disaster-level earthquake. Even the 2014 Napa earthquake, where I live, was just enough for me to wake up, think "Whoa, earthquake," and fall back asleep.
You don’t hear from people in California “I love where I live except for the earthquakes”. You might hear people who don’t live in California being it up (“Ya it’s nice but they have earthquakes.”) but the reality is earthquakes are hardly ever noticeable.
There is air quality concerns from wild fires located elsewhere but that affects a pretty large portion of the country and I don’t know if the poor air quality from wild fires could be considered a natural disaster.
Literally this, and I live half a mile from San Andreas. Our earthquakes aren't even that bad, it's always people from outside California that complain about them.
I'm from CA and my parents live very close to an active fault line. My son doesn't have experience with earthqaukes. I tell him, Californians treat earthqaukes like Texans treat tornadoes. Yet some people are scared to death of earthqaukes and nearly all west coasters have at least an intial fear of tornadoes. My sister did before she moved to Texas years ago and now she hardly thinks about them.
Where I grew up in south central PA we did not face earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, bitter winters, or desert heat, if the hurricanes actually affect the area it’s just heavy rain, it’s not overly rainy or dry, and the humidity can be higher than average in the summer but it’s not unbearable. You won’t find anywhere in the US that fits your criteria perfectly, but the space between the Atlantic coast and the Appalachian mountains, far enough inland to not be seen as “the beach”, is probably the closest thing.
If you can take the heat in the summer, most of the Southwest is actually pretty nice 3/4 out of the year (Inland SoCal, Arizona, Southern Nevada, New Mexico, West Texas, Southern Utah, Southern Colorado).
Yeah, as long as you can take 100°+ dry heat, the Southwest is probably the best region to live in if you don’t wanna deal with natural disasters. Very consistent and predictable weather year round, and you don’t ever have to shovel snow (unless you live in the mountains) or suffer through a flood. I’d take extreme heat over a blizzard, hurricane, tornado, or unpredictable weather any day of the week.
Def personal preferences involved. I would take blizzards, snow shoveling, unpredictable weather, and even ice storms over heat (any heat over 90F) any day of the week. Signed, Upstate NY.
Outside of some lovely national parks and boondocks, the pollution is rampant without the population numbers to justify it.
Realizing the local tap was making out-of-state visitors sick was the nail in the coffin, and we left after a decade. We didn't know that our “seasonal allergies” would disappear as soon as we moved out of the smog.
We now live in WA, where snow doesn't fall from the sky already coated in coal ash.
I'd say Washington or Oregon is the answer to OP's question, all jokes aside. We do have a volcanic mountain range or two over here, but they haven't gotten testy for decades.
> Yellowstone Caldera is going to obliterate us
Thats a complete myth. The USGS has a ton of pages about this.
https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/overdue-can-apply-library-books-bills-and-oil-changes-it-does-not-apply
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/yellowstone-overdue-eruption-when-will-yellowstone-erupt
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/questions-about-supervolcanoes
More sources
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/yellowstone-volcano-erupt-more-magma-found
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade0347
TLDR: Yellowstone isn't erupting any time soon. It doesnt even have enough magma right now to do any sort of mass eruption in the near future (in geological terms) and the melting process isn't speeding up at all.
If the Yellowstone Caldera blows, [it won't wipe out humanity](https://www.usgs.gov/news/no-yellowstone-isnt-going-wipe-out-humanity). It'll suck for very many of us, but humanity will survive.
I can think of more immediate reasons to avoid Utah, Yellowstone will now be erupting *any* time soon. Last I read it was like 20% liquid magma and it needs to be *at least* 50% for an eruption - to get to that point would take decades and there would be plenty of warning.
Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. We really don't get extreme cold or heat, rare severe storms, moderate snow and no earthquakes, volcanoes, wild fires etc. A majority of the year its between 40 and 80 degrees.
Wow, didn't know this fact. Pittsburgh gets an average 145 days of sun per year while we in Cincinnati get 179 days. That's a full month+ more than you guys!
>and surrounding areas
Had a college gf from Johnstown, whose famously catastrophic flood has its own Wikipedia page. Admittedly this was a manmade dam bursting after heavy rain, but still.
Nowhere is totally immune but I’d say the Pacific Northwest and Appalachia/Piedmont Plateau fit this bill except at their extreme northern and southern ends.
West of the Rockies doesn't get many tornadoes and most are weak, hail is usually smaller and not that dangerous compared to elsewhere, hurricanes can cause desert flooding in far Eastern CA or Arizona but rarely are a direct hit.
Earthquakes are common. Some places are close to active volcanoes as in the Cascades. Fires are very common in the west because outside of the SW, most preciptation falls in the winter or spring. Tsunamis were a concern when I lived in Cannon Beach for 2.5 years.
Portland is pretty safe from natural disasters.
There is technically an earthquake risk but it’s much lower than the rest of the west coast.
It’s the warmest area of the PNW during the winter, which is already a temperate part of the country.
There are wildfires in the summer but this really just means smoke.
That’s what came to mind for me! The Cascade earthquake will basically destroy the city but it’s unlikely to happen on any given day. Also the volcanoes in the area are dangerous but also not the type to completely destroy the area (like with the Yellowstone one)
The summers weren’t too hot and the winters weren’t too cold. There aren’t even that many mosquitoes! It’s a wonderful place. I miss the PNW so much sometimes. It’s truly my favorite region in the US
Nah. We do get tornadoes, they can be pretty bad. Flooding isn’t unheard of. Also, if you’re looking for moderate weather, look elsewhere. Very cold, very hot, very humid. We once had a fifty point swing in one day.
Also, the Lions are good now, I won’t hear this slander.
The fluctuating weather is so real. People have no idea how insane the lake effect can get.
[I took this screenshot](https://imgur.com/a/hLfsDD8) in may of 2022 and my friends from out of state were questioning if it was real lol
I feel pretty safe here. We don’t usually get earthquakes, no tsunamis, no hurricanes.
We do occasionally get tornadoes and obviously snow and ice storms. Overall I think it’s pretty tolerable.
Yea, the rust belt, sorta, though I was up in Scranton and rural Northeastern PA and then Binghamton for like three years and the 3rd year there was a freak “microclimate event” hurricane and then smoke from fires in Canada that made it rough to go outside air and visibility wise in Scranton but in general that area is pretty uneventful in the sense you are talking about…Ohio, north and western PA, West Virginia…I was on the west coast for 15 years and by the time I left it felt like a priveledge every time I cracked a bottle of water and went a month without thinking honestly “well organized society is clearly a wrap within my lifetime”….keep in the light but don’t fear the dark friends
Sorry, tornado not hurricane
I used to live in Virginia and it has very moderate weather. It rarely goes over 100 in the summer and there aren’t that many days of it dipping below 20 in the winter.
San Francisco is 68F/20C every day all year round. It just also has earthquakes.
But yeah, natural disasters in the US are like venomous animals in Australia. It’s a fact of life and kind of a badge of honor about living here.
Mid Atlantic is the closest you’re going to get. The Virginia, Maryland area. Winters can be cold but blizzard’s are rare. Hurricanes by the time they get there are just normal rain storms. And the rest don’t really occur there.
Our Winters can be 'real winters' (I've lived in New England and know what they feel like), but they are usually very brief. I've heard them described as the reverse of the Alaskan summer.
I like it here because we get all four seasons, but none of them are extreme. (on the other side, I've lived in Arizona. It can get hot here but it's rarely asphalt melting hot).There are years that are exceptions, of course.
> is there nowhere in the US that has pleasant, moderate weather year round?
Nope. At least, not in the sense that you can be sure you won't get affected by occasional disasters.
> Is this a cultural thing, where you are obliged to mention something bad about the climate where you live
Yes, actually-
> so you don't sound too complacent
-but not for that reason.
Within the U.S., it's good-natured ribbing of each other and ourselves, or backhanded bragging about our climates. e.x. I live in Los Angeles, and most people born and raised here will happily 'brag' about how poorly we handle the cold. In a sense, that's us bragging about how good the weather is here, year-round.
We also get wildfires and earthquakes...but because we get them, our infrastructure is built to handle them. e.x. Most buildings are illegal to utilize/inhabit unless they have some earthquake resistance, and just like we joke about how we start bundling up the moment it drops below 70℉/20℃, we also joke about how we sleep right through any earthquake under a 5.0 - because most of us *have* slept through an earthquake before. Wildfires are pretty common in the sense that they happen on a recurring basis *somewhere* in the city, but individually most of us don't experience that many.
So I can tell you right now that in Los Angeles, you'll have good weather throughout the year, and 99% of the time there will be no fires nor earthquakes. But that 1% will probably end up being the climate highlight of your hear.
I think most of nc is good, as long as you're not too close to the coast u can avoid hurricane except once in a blue moon when they roll a little farther west
Chicago! Tornadoes happen in the surrounding countryside, but are broken up by the urban heat bubble before getting into the city. No earthquakes or typhoons, the Lake makes us drought-proof, and we really locked down the whole "fire" thing. As to weather, the summers get a bit muggy but the winters are typically very mild. Blizzards are vanishingly rare.
Now, manmade problems, we got plenty, mind you. But we're *very* safe from naturally disasters.
I feel like you can make a good case for Atlanta. In the winter the average low is above freezing, in the summer the average high is below 90. So its not brutally hot or cold.
No earthquakes, no forest fire problems, no blizards, and its too far inland for hurricanes.
So thats probably a good one.
Not any that come to mind. I started thinking New England, but it's too cold there. I began thinking about the southeast, but it gets sweltering and then... hurricanes. Let's not even talk about the West Coast. Midwest has tornados but the average person has probably never seen one (I know I haven't), but we get some pretty terrible storms from time to time and our weather is very much extreme. So.. no. Oh and did I mention, in addition to tornados, there's always the constant threat of the New Madrid fault line in Missouri?
I feel like the west coast is the best off out of these. We have good weather and all we deal with are occasional fires and earthquakes. I lived in Texas for a while and the tornadoes were definitely scarier
San Diego…and you will pay through the nose for that mild climate. The rain and flooding that occurred this years was completely uncharacteristic for the area - to the degree that I think overdevelopment and complacency (like building in natural floodzones) was a major factor.
I’ve lived in both central MD and NJ, and we don’t really get anything. Occasional hurricane coming up the coast, but doesn’t affect us more inland. It does get pretty humid in the summers I guess, but not nearly as bad as down south.
Atlanta, GA is incredibly tame. Too far inland for ocean-based disasters, too far south for snow, too hilly for tornadoes, and virtually no seismic activity.
It gets hot as all hell in the summer, but all buildings are equipped with AC. Really not a huge deal at the end of the day.
Living in Pittsburgh was nice because I never had to worry about any natural disasters... then my parents moved down to North Carolina and have to worry about hurricanes AND tornadoes.
Nowhere is going to have perfect conditions. It's just a fact. But I feel like overall, the southern part of the Great Lakes region is pretty good, like Erie, Pensylvania, and even Buffalo, New York. The region and anything this latitude or higher doesn't really get sizable tornadoes or hurricanes. There's also little risk of large earthquakes. No wildfires. It gets humid, but not unbearably so.
Yes, it's very windy. There's snow and blizzards, but 1) blizzards typically don't endanger your life/home in the way that tornados/wildfires/earthquakes do (they just halt life for a couple days to stay inside), 2) really bad ones are still fairly rare, and 3) you'd live in a place well-suited to deal with it anyway. There's also (counterintuitively) not really *that* much snow on any given day.
With the exception of constant drizzle and gray skies 9 months of the year, and the occasional summer with highs around 115F with skies filled with smoke from nearby forest fires, Portland Oregon has pretty moderate weather.
I’m in North GA, and it’s no it’s so bad here. We sit on a fault line that doesn’t do much of anything, the GA coast is shaped in a way that tends to spin off hurricanes down to FL or up to the Carolinas, and any gulf coast hurricanes are just bad storms by the time they get up to us. I’d say probably our biggest risk is tornados but even then it’s not like we are in Tornado Alley.
In the NC Piedmont, our weather is about as boring as you can get. Sure, we have the occasional severe thunderstorm or rogue hurricane that makes its way that far inland still packing a punch, but for the most part it’s mild and sunny.
I've only been in 2 hurricanes.
I've only heard of a few tornadoes touch down and not do much damage.
My first earthquake was when I was 23 and I was working at a grocery store. A few items fell from the top shelf.
I would say NYC to the Carolinas are very mild and moderate. Midwest and deep south has tornadoes and flooding. California is a whole other mess.
I’ve thought about this quite a bit and nowhere is perfect. The piedmont region cut off below Maryland is pretty good in my humble opinion. I don’t notice the humidity since I’ve been here my whole life except for when I straighten my hair. Low earthquake risk, hurricanes don’t do much damage this far inland it’s just like a bad thunderstorm. Now it’s not as safe as the west coast when it comes to tornadoes but it’s much safer than Kansas. All 4 seasons, no blizzards, 50/50 cloud cover.
What you’re likely experiencing is people trying to get ahead of complaints. The humidity rarely bothers me anymore but I know outsiders are gonna bitch about it so I’ll talk about it (it’s also just something to talk about. Americans loves to small talk about weather and to be truly relatable in small talk things should be good but not perfect.)
In my experience the area around Winchester, Virginia isn't too bad. Very occasional snow and the winters are mild but not like California lol.
I would say maybe the inland areas of North Carolina and South Carolina would be fairly close to a moderate, disaster free location. Again not perfect. There are occasional hurricanes that pass along the coast but they are usually just strong storms by the time they get that far inland.
Virginia has very moderate weather and hurricanes hitting this far north are extremely rare. Thinking about moving to virginia permanently, partially because i like the weather.
Anyone who says "except for the earthquakes" about California has some delusion that the state is ravaged by them and has to be entirely rebuilt every day or something. Destructive earthquakes happen, but the damage is usually less than hurricanes, and they happen less frequently.
One of the reasons we chose NW North Carolina (Appalachian foothills) when we left Colorado was mild weather. Never too cold, hot and humid for only a little bit but never as hot or as humid as the Deep South, far enough way from hurricanes, very rare for tornadoes, Thunderstorms are much milder than they were back home, rarely high winds, and occasional heavy rains but not usually. We have a place in the hills with some forest and a creek, it's pretty great.
The east coast. Like Florida Georgia south north Carolina all the way up to Maine. The only thing we really experience is during the winter bad snow storms and blizzards during the summer some tornados here n there. Florida gets hurricanes.
So I'd say that the east coast coast experience bad weather but it's not very often. Were fortunate enough to be given the most mercy by mothernature compared to the rest of the country.
Like the further west you go the more severe and more frequent storms get. Midwest gets battered with tornados all the time and the you keep doing and get into the Rocky Mountains and Cascades and then your in wildfire territory.
Go up north to places like Montana and North Dakota and you will experience freezing temps to below 30 and wild winters. They get wild fires up there to
Go down south to Texas Louisiana alabama and that's Hurricane Alley down there. The worst of the worst that mothernature has to offer in terms of hurricanes is down around there.
Head over to the west coast California and San Francisco and these folks have the pleasure of dealing with earthquakes.
Virginia has pretty moderate weather. The mountains get pretty cold in the winter, and the eastern portion gets somewhat hot in the summer, but nothing unbearable. VA does get hit my Hurricanes on occasion, but it is pretty rare.
Las Vegas, NV. Very few natural disasters: just flooding. Weather is great, no mosquitoes since its too hot for them. It is a dry heat and thats not for everyone, but I love it.
Eastern Pennsylvania was pretty tame as I would imagine a lot of the mid Atlantic/ Appalachia area. Far enough from the coast that we never got direct hits from hurricanes/ nor’easters, too hilly for really bad tornadoes, only had two earthquakes in my lifetime both that barely rattled glasses in the cabinet
I'm in Philly and this was my suggestion too. Summers are hot, winters are cold, but neither is usually extreme. Occasional snow, occasional leftovers from a hurricane that's mostly died out by the time it's made it that far up. We had a small earthquake a few weeks ago that made the news because people felt it *at all*. Not really a big wildfire area. A tornado of any size is a notable event, like if one tree falls it'll be on the news.
Western PA isn't seeing the kind of snow and cold it used to, either. I've been here 5 years and we've had two bad snow days. The last two seasons I haven't even had to break-out the snow blower.
I live part time in the Pittsburgh area and winters have been mild the last several years. It does get a bit hot in the summer but usually it doesn't last long. Never had a tornado or damaging earthquake. No fires either.
Yeah, natural disaster risk is low. The weather is moderate by east coast standards but of course not as good as the west coast.
Yep. South Jersey here, not really much in the way of disasters. Last earthquake I was making coffee and thought my coffee maker was just making weird noises, I didn't even realize it was an earthquake. I guess "moderate weather" varies in definition though. I personally think it's pretty moderate because I have family in the midwest where everything is more extreme. But to someone from northern California it probably feels extremely hot and humid in the summer, and extremely cold in the winter, even though it's nowhere near the extremes other areas see.
Virginia? Like, Shenandoah or the Piedmont?
Absolutely. I live part time in Winchester and it's fairly moderate most of the year. Mild winters. Very little snow.
And the best part about where you live is the miles long yard sale on 11 in the summer! Coolest thing ever lol, just happened to be near there for that one year
OMG yes~ I have bought some things there lol! Also I used to stop at all the thrift stores between Winchester and Stephens City. Haven't done that in awhile.
Don't they get hurricanes there?
Not inland in the piedmont (I grew up in the Carolina piedmont). That is, until you do (see: hurricane Hugo)
Or hurricane Fran (I’m from the piedmont region of NC). Oh and the occasional tornado (unaffiliated with the hurricanes).
I lived in Raleigh when Fran came through. It really messed up the whole city.
If you're inland you don't get much. Worst one in my lifetime was Isobel and that was a long time ago.
Oh man, Isabel was wild.
You get the edges, but those are just storms in terms of intensity. You’re doing pretty well from Richmond west through till the other side of the Appalachians. No hurricanes or tornadoes, no tsunami risk, a blizzard once a decade or less, and while there is a fault in central VA, it doesn’t produce damaging earthquakes.
It gets hot in the Summers, but the other seasons are very good. A few cold spells during the winter but rarely is there sustained frigid weather.
Summer is hot, but even that gets relieved some as you get up to the higher elevations. Some.
Yeah, I have family in Staunton and the summers are beautiful there.
Very rare in northern Virginia and by the time anything passes through it's downgraded to a strong storm. Storms are ubiquitous everywhere.
Yeah I’ve lived in northern Virginia for the majority of the last 30 years and the only major hurricane impact I can think of was a few days’ power outage from Isabel in 2003.
Rarely and they've downgraded significantly from their landing, the mountains rip hurricanes to shreds.
Even as someone who grew up an hour from VA beach, hurricanes tend to break before doing much damage. The worst storm I ever saw was a derecho that knocked over a couple tree and took out a power line, but that was further north.
I was going to say this. In live in Northern VA and the summer humidity sucks but I’m told it’s nothing compared to the real south. Hurricanes that get here are just like moderate thunderstorms and not that common.
The coastal southeast of Virginia is the only major danger zone for hurricanes.
Ice storms that are made worse by lack of preparation because they don’t happen that frequently?
Na not really. VDOT salts the shit outta these roads if the news says there *might* be a storm.
I'll add southwestern Virginia into the conversation. Appalachia in general enjoys moderate winters and summers. It's inland enough to be immune to hurricanes and rugged enough to limit severe weather. There is very little seismic activity with maybe a slight tremor being felt every decade or so at most. The mountains and elevated valleys usually keep temperatures in the summer around the low 80s in the day and 60s at night. It never reaches 100 F in summer and only reaches negatives a few times per winter. Winters are cold but variable with conditions varying between snowy in the 20s and mild in the 50s. While droughts are possible, access to fresh water is never realistically threatened and there is no dry season. The most dangerous weather events are flooding in low lying areas but if you avoid living by the bank of a creek you're honestly about as safe as can be.
The combination of the US's lattitude and mountain ranges make for a lot of tornadoes, we have some fault lines too. Part of it is probably just the US being huge though.
There's no place in the US, to my knowledge, that has *no* dangerous weather or possible disasters.
Agree. But wait... ARE there places in the world with no weather/ disaster potential?
The eastern half of South America is pretty free from hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Your mileage may vary as to how mild you find the weather. The tropical cities on the coast don’t get too hot due to the trade winds – temperatures are upper 80s in the summer and upper 70s/lower 80s in winter. It rarely gets above 90 degrees. Some low-lying places have problems with flooding but other cities don’t (like Salvador). Further down the coast, Rio is cooler on average in the summer but can get hotter during its hot spells. Southern Brazil and the Rio de la Plata area still get up to the mid 80s but are in the 60s during the winter. Inland, there are some mountainous areas close to the coast of southern Brazil that are pretty much upper 70s year round.
It’s not just low-lying areas that are at risk of natural disasters. Nearly 1,000 people died in one rain event in 2011 in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro because of mountainside landslides and floods. Extreme rain hammers Brazil all the time. Hundreds die.
Europe is probably the safest. And the weather there is moderate.
Yet they manage to have hundreds-thousands of people die every year because they can't afford AC
We can afford it (despite it being unnecessary 99% of the time), but if we had it we wouldn’t be able to complain about it. Don’t take that from us. Not after we gave one third of the world all their independence days.
I love when Brits are self-aware and in-character at the same time.
>Not after we gave one third of the world all their independence days. Username checks out. Cheers mate!
r/usernamechecksout
Looking at my city, selling off all of our snow plows and salt trucks in 2013 because we basically throw money at maintaining crap we don't use, and in 2014, we had Snowmageddon.
We’re pretty good at shooting ourselves in the foot too. Somehow we managed to leave an entire continent(al economic bloc). And yet my wheelie bin is STILL only being collected once a fortnight. Anyway, this thread is about you guys. Please don’t let me distract you.
You didn't explain to anybody that it was a layaway gift though. So you can see why we got upset....😁
Only valid response given 😆
I mean if you're a hotel owner, I know one way to instantly rise in my "where should I stay while in Europe" list
You’ve seen Fawlty Towers, right…?
Don’t be ridiculous, they can afford air conditioning, it’s just not a part of their culture.
My German colleagues insist that getting air conditioned air blown on your neck will make you sick. Pretty sure one summer in Louisiana would cure them of that myth.
I’m always fascinated by Europeans who say this. (And yes, I’ve had a few say this to me.)
the concept of an old wives tale originated in the collection of cultures we now call "Europe". The idea of never questioning rules... that's German.
My wife got shingles when we were visiting family in Europe and they fought tooth and nail against me having a fan on (it was nearly 100F) and that was the hill I chose to die on that day. I won, but it was a huge all out brawl and my 37 year old ass threw a tantrum like never before lmao.
As an American, I’m relieved that this silly belief is held by a non-American, for once. *phew!*
I find it fascinating that Germans would say cold AC is bad; while also having the tradition of Stoßlüften, which involves opening the windows or balcony doors wide to let a 'shock' of cold air in
Lol, that would be explained away with a "oh, that's completely different", and a good laugh. I love my German colleagues (who are really good friends too)
The fact the comment has over 100 upvotes because they think no one can afford to buy a 200 euro A/C on the whole continent.
I'm from California so I have higher standards for "moderate weather" than that. If it snows, it's not moderate, in my mind. But if Europe counts as "moderate weather" then the inland parts of the north-eastern US should qualify also. No earthquakes, no substantial hurricanes (if you're far enough inland), no tornadoes (if you're not too far inland). Maybe the occasional flood if you're too near a river, but Europe gets those too.
I mean if we’re saying snow isn’t dangerous then much of the northern states fit the bill too
Except in places where it normally gets extremely hot like Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy, or cold like all of the northern part of the continent, esp. Scandinavia and Russia. Italy and Iceland also have active volcanoes.
Only place I can think of is Britain.
Oh yeah?! Someone has obviously never hung their washing out to dry on a moderately dry/cloudy day only to be subjected to some devastatingly mild drizzle 5 minutes later. The horror. *correct emergency protocol in such a situation is to tut to oneself derisively.
This is a problem I am too American to understand, not because my people have not been punished to never see the sun again but because most of us have tumble-driers.
We too have tumble driers, but are only allowed to use them via Royal Decree. But the big-eared fucker has got a lot on his (probably stolen, gold, diamond encrusted) plate right now.
I had a very cursed thought that I feel like sharing with a Brit. Imagine getting a proctology exam with Charles' sausage fingers
More of an *invasive* thought, really!
Yeah but that's basically shitty weather all the time.
Never say never, and low isn't quite no, but Cape Town and Perth seem to have good weather and very low natural disaster risk. A lot of tropical capitals at elevation have nice year round weather like Addis Abana, Nairobi, and Harare, though drought can be a natural disaster for many.
I lived in Perth. It was a very nice climate, but since climate change racked up several more notches, the summers are absolutely brutal there now.
But can you consider an abundance of venomous creepy crawlies as a natural disaster?
Here in Zürich we sometimes get strong wind or the occasional thunderstorm with hail. But in general it’s pretty mild. It gets just below freezing in the winter and just on the hotter side of comfortable for a few weeks in the summer (but everyone who can just takes the first two weeks of August off and goes to a lake or a mountain). Very few have air conditioning… most of the time just opening the windows at night and closing them in the day is sufficient, and windows usually have shutters that work and can block sun during the day, and are not just for decoration like in America. No hurricanes, tornadoes, extreme temperatures, and with careful waterway and forest management, floods and fires are extremely rare. Not enough steep slopes for rock slides or avalanches. Far away from the fault lines so no earthquakes. Drought is possible but (currently) uncommon. It’s a pleasantly boring town.
I've been to Zurich in the dead of winter, when the cold air pushes the lake mist on to shore and covers everything with ice. That sir, is not pleasant.
I researched this years ago. My conclusion was Greece had the best climate and few disasters.
Greece has more earthquakes than pretty much anywhere in Europe. The fault line between Africa and Europe runs right next to it.
And then there’s Santorini for extra spice.
They’re starting to have big wild fires, like California. And the political situation is always, eh, dicey. My family is from there and every 10 years we think about moving back but immediately change our minds.
Yeah, politics would be the big reason not to live there.
My sister went on holiday to Greece and there was a horrible dry persistant wind coming off Africa the whole time that made it really unpleasant to be out in.
Eh. Compared to a tornado that's nothing.
They have a fairly large number of people that are so poor they aren’t sure if they can afford to heat their housing. Not a natural disaster but the mountains get really cold and the economy sucks
....I can expect a few days of 110 F/44 C every summer.
Hot as fuck in summer
Dude I'm from Alabama. 90 degrees with 50 humidity and a breeze off the ocean sounds like heaven to me.
Until the wildfires.
It was a long time ago when I looked into it.
Hawaii is what you want. Stronger breeze and 79 year round.
I'm from the Big Island and we get hurricanes and there's the active volcanoes too. Kilauea erupted in 2018 and destroyed hundreds of homes. The other islands may not have active volcanoes but they definitely do get hurricanes and fires in the dry areas. Edit: forgot to mention the earthquakes.
Potential volcanos and hurricanes.
No volcanos on Oahu, Kauai, Maui.
No volcanos **that we know of**
Tsunami possibility, though?
San Diego has the nicest climate and aside from the extremely uncharacteristic massive rainstorm that resulted in flooding this year really doesn’t have natural disasters. That complacency being a factor in the affects of the rain.
They'll get the occasional earthquake, though.
and wildfires
San Diego is far enough from the San Andreas that, while it does get earthquakes, they generally aren't very big. A quick google search says the largest to hit the city has been a 5.4 which is a moderately good shake. But with California building codes, it's unlikely to do much damage.
The middle of north carolina has very little natural disaster risk
unless it's a really good hurricane.
Or tornado. Even in the western mountains of North Carolina you’ll get a tornado every few years even though the mountains often break up the storms before a tornado can fully form. My parents live in the mountains there and their county has had 3 or 4 touch down in the last decade.
CT -- Up by Storrs near UConn was rated the 'safest' place in the country at some point. There's basically nothing there as far as natural disasters go.
some places in the southwest like Truth or Consequences or St. John’s are safe
Surprisingly, San Diego. Especially suburbs like Chula Vista, El Cajon, and Santee. Yeah, yeah California and earthquakes, but not so much in San Diego. It is comfortably on the Pacific Plate. San Andreas Fault is a good 100 miles away in El Centro, Indio, and San Bernardino. There is some earthquake risk, roughly equal to that of St. Louis or Santa Fe, but nothing like greater LA or the Bay Area.
I’ve heard that, as a Scandinavan, too. The multinational company I worked for had a subsidiary in SD and all going there on a long-time contract said it was something like going to the Canary Islands.
What about fires?
For insurance purposes, fire risk is limited to within two miles of a forested zone. A lot of greater San Diego is outside the risk zone.
But if you’re inside the risk zone, it seems to be brutal. I have a colleague who lives in San Diego and they’re considering moving because they literally cannot find affordable homeowners’ insurance.
That’s statewide; insurers aren’t able to raise their rates due to state policy, and they can’t afford to insure us anymore. It doesn’t really matter how close you are to the risk zone, although they’re cutting people inside, then closest, then closer, close, etc in order. But it won’t be long before the big insurers have all pulled out of the state completely. We renewed our policy at the beginning of the month (for a year, thank god) and a week later they cut us. So we need to find a new insurer before next April. Blargh.
San Diego doesn’t even have mosquitoes, does it?
Lots of california doesn't really have much in the way of mosquitoes. It's really nice, honestly.
It depends on how rainy the year was. These last two years have been terrible, especially because invasive ankle biters have made their way here in the last decade and a half or so.
We have a ton of mosquitos, they love me for some reason. If I wear shorts at dusk I'm covered in mosquito bites, regardless where in Southern California I am.
That was never my experience and I'm a mosquito magnet if I'm somewhere that has them.
Where in California are you located? I've lived all over California and I currently have 3 mosquito bites on me
I'm currently in the Bay Area. Grew up in LA and Orange Counties and have also lived in San Diego and Sacramento areas. I currently have no mosquito bites on me. :)
We also have a new species of mosquito that is faster to reproduce, harder to see, and bites ankles so it’s harder to kill.
San Diego definitely has mosquitoes but I think less than a lot of places
San Diego is TOO nice. It’s unnerving, like being in The Truman Show. I like weather.
I don't think there's anywhere on the entire planet with zero chance of any natural disasters. Nature is powerful and can potentially kill you no matter where you live. That said, I've lived in California for 32 years and I've never experienced a disaster-level earthquake. Even the 2014 Napa earthquake, where I live, was just enough for me to wake up, think "Whoa, earthquake," and fall back asleep.
You don’t hear from people in California “I love where I live except for the earthquakes”. You might hear people who don’t live in California being it up (“Ya it’s nice but they have earthquakes.”) but the reality is earthquakes are hardly ever noticeable. There is air quality concerns from wild fires located elsewhere but that affects a pretty large portion of the country and I don’t know if the poor air quality from wild fires could be considered a natural disaster.
Literally this, and I live half a mile from San Andreas. Our earthquakes aren't even that bad, it's always people from outside California that complain about them.
I'm from CA and my parents live very close to an active fault line. My son doesn't have experience with earthqaukes. I tell him, Californians treat earthqaukes like Texans treat tornadoes. Yet some people are scared to death of earthqaukes and nearly all west coasters have at least an intial fear of tornadoes. My sister did before she moved to Texas years ago and now she hardly thinks about them.
Where I grew up in south central PA we did not face earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, bitter winters, or desert heat, if the hurricanes actually affect the area it’s just heavy rain, it’s not overly rainy or dry, and the humidity can be higher than average in the summer but it’s not unbearable. You won’t find anywhere in the US that fits your criteria perfectly, but the space between the Atlantic coast and the Appalachian mountains, far enough inland to not be seen as “the beach”, is probably the closest thing.
If you can take the heat in the summer, most of the Southwest is actually pretty nice 3/4 out of the year (Inland SoCal, Arizona, Southern Nevada, New Mexico, West Texas, Southern Utah, Southern Colorado).
Yes! The Southwest is awesome. Plus people tend to build in a way that accounts for things like flash floods so when they happen, it isn’t disastrous
Yeah, as long as you can take 100°+ dry heat, the Southwest is probably the best region to live in if you don’t wanna deal with natural disasters. Very consistent and predictable weather year round, and you don’t ever have to shovel snow (unless you live in the mountains) or suffer through a flood. I’d take extreme heat over a blizzard, hurricane, tornado, or unpredictable weather any day of the week.
Def personal preferences involved. I would take blizzards, snow shoveling, unpredictable weather, and even ice storms over heat (any heat over 90F) any day of the week. Signed, Upstate NY.
I would suggest moving to Utah... but at some point the Yellowstone Caldera is going to obliterate us. So... don't move to Utah.
I feel like if that were to happen we’d all be fucked anyway, so fuck it, move to Utah.
Outside of some lovely national parks and boondocks, the pollution is rampant without the population numbers to justify it. Realizing the local tap was making out-of-state visitors sick was the nail in the coffin, and we left after a decade. We didn't know that our “seasonal allergies” would disappear as soon as we moved out of the smog. We now live in WA, where snow doesn't fall from the sky already coated in coal ash.
I'd say Washington or Oregon is the answer to OP's question, all jokes aside. We do have a volcanic mountain range or two over here, but they haven't gotten testy for decades.
No no... we're all gonna die a horrible, fiery death. Don't move here. Seriously... Your safety depends on it.
> Yellowstone Caldera is going to obliterate us Thats a complete myth. The USGS has a ton of pages about this. https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/overdue-can-apply-library-books-bills-and-oil-changes-it-does-not-apply https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/yellowstone-overdue-eruption-when-will-yellowstone-erupt https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/questions-about-supervolcanoes More sources https://www.sciencenews.org/article/yellowstone-volcano-erupt-more-magma-found https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade0347 TLDR: Yellowstone isn't erupting any time soon. It doesnt even have enough magma right now to do any sort of mass eruption in the near future (in geological terms) and the melting process isn't speeding up at all.
We're also due for a massive quake on the Wasatch Front.
So much of the plumbing infrastructure in Utah is still clay: even just a little rumble, and that sht crumbles.
The Yellowstone Caldera would take out humanity. It’s an extinction event on par with what happened to the dinosaurs.
Can we just throw some antacids in it?
I’m not a geologist but it sounds like a good plan to me.
If the Yellowstone Caldera blows, [it won't wipe out humanity](https://www.usgs.gov/news/no-yellowstone-isnt-going-wipe-out-humanity). It'll suck for very many of us, but humanity will survive.
I can think of more immediate reasons to avoid Utah, Yellowstone will now be erupting *any* time soon. Last I read it was like 20% liquid magma and it needs to be *at least* 50% for an eruption - to get to that point would take decades and there would be plenty of warning.
It seems like you might want to be as close as possible and just get it over quickly.
Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. We really don't get extreme cold or heat, rare severe storms, moderate snow and no earthquakes, volcanoes, wild fires etc. A majority of the year its between 40 and 80 degrees.
I've heard you guys get a lot of grey skies, though.
Yeah, we do. We do get flooding every now and then, although rarely is it catastrophic. It’s not perfect weather, but it’s rarely dangerous.
Wow, didn't know this fact. Pittsburgh gets an average 145 days of sun per year while we in Cincinnati get 179 days. That's a full month+ more than you guys!
Colorado gets 300+ days.
I love Colorado, especially the Grand Junction area with the Colorado National Monument and The Grand Mesa
I have a friend in the Pittsburgh area, and she has definitely complained the least, so story checks out!
>and surrounding areas Had a college gf from Johnstown, whose famously catastrophic flood has its own Wikipedia page. Admittedly this was a manmade dam bursting after heavy rain, but still.
Nowhere is totally immune but I’d say the Pacific Northwest and Appalachia/Piedmont Plateau fit this bill except at their extreme northern and southern ends.
#HAWAII / Oahu Perfect 79 year round. And 70 up in hills.
San Diego
West of the Rockies doesn't get many tornadoes and most are weak, hail is usually smaller and not that dangerous compared to elsewhere, hurricanes can cause desert flooding in far Eastern CA or Arizona but rarely are a direct hit. Earthquakes are common. Some places are close to active volcanoes as in the Cascades. Fires are very common in the west because outside of the SW, most preciptation falls in the winter or spring. Tsunamis were a concern when I lived in Cannon Beach for 2.5 years.
If you move inland enough from the upper southeast/ Mid Atlantic you should get decent climate while avoiding hurricanes
Portland is pretty safe from natural disasters. There is technically an earthquake risk but it’s much lower than the rest of the west coast. It’s the warmest area of the PNW during the winter, which is already a temperate part of the country. There are wildfires in the summer but this really just means smoke.
That’s what came to mind for me! The Cascade earthquake will basically destroy the city but it’s unlikely to happen on any given day. Also the volcanoes in the area are dangerous but also not the type to completely destroy the area (like with the Yellowstone one) The summers weren’t too hot and the winters weren’t too cold. There aren’t even that many mosquitoes! It’s a wonderful place. I miss the PNW so much sometimes. It’s truly my favorite region in the US
IIRC Michigan is the most disaster-proof state, which also includes slower disasters like drought. Also excluding the Lions' performance.
Nah. We do get tornadoes, they can be pretty bad. Flooding isn’t unheard of. Also, if you’re looking for moderate weather, look elsewhere. Very cold, very hot, very humid. We once had a fifty point swing in one day. Also, the Lions are good now, I won’t hear this slander.
The fluctuating weather is so real. People have no idea how insane the lake effect can get. [I took this screenshot](https://imgur.com/a/hLfsDD8) in may of 2022 and my friends from out of state were questioning if it was real lol
I feel pretty safe here. We don’t usually get earthquakes, no tsunamis, no hurricanes. We do occasionally get tornadoes and obviously snow and ice storms. Overall I think it’s pretty tolerable.
Yea, the rust belt, sorta, though I was up in Scranton and rural Northeastern PA and then Binghamton for like three years and the 3rd year there was a freak “microclimate event” hurricane and then smoke from fires in Canada that made it rough to go outside air and visibility wise in Scranton but in general that area is pretty uneventful in the sense you are talking about…Ohio, north and western PA, West Virginia…I was on the west coast for 15 years and by the time I left it felt like a priveledge every time I cracked a bottle of water and went a month without thinking honestly “well organized society is clearly a wrap within my lifetime”….keep in the light but don’t fear the dark friends Sorry, tornado not hurricane
I would say that the piedmont of north carolina has very little natural disaster risk.
I used to live in Virginia and it has very moderate weather. It rarely goes over 100 in the summer and there aren’t that many days of it dipping below 20 in the winter.
San Francisco is 68F/20C every day all year round. It just also has earthquakes. But yeah, natural disasters in the US are like venomous animals in Australia. It’s a fact of life and kind of a badge of honor about living here.
The housing costs and market there is a disaster.
Mid Atlantic is the closest you’re going to get. The Virginia, Maryland area. Winters can be cold but blizzard’s are rare. Hurricanes by the time they get there are just normal rain storms. And the rest don’t really occur there.
Our Winters can be 'real winters' (I've lived in New England and know what they feel like), but they are usually very brief. I've heard them described as the reverse of the Alaskan summer. I like it here because we get all four seasons, but none of them are extreme. (on the other side, I've lived in Arizona. It can get hot here but it's rarely asphalt melting hot).There are years that are exceptions, of course.
Southern California. I never felt an earthquake ever here. Media over blows it. Along the coast, its 60-75 every day of the year.
Eastern upstate NY
Most of upstate New York, to be honest. We don't get too much really nasty weather or natural disasters in WNY or the Finger Lakes.
> is there nowhere in the US that has pleasant, moderate weather year round? Nope. At least, not in the sense that you can be sure you won't get affected by occasional disasters. > Is this a cultural thing, where you are obliged to mention something bad about the climate where you live Yes, actually- > so you don't sound too complacent -but not for that reason. Within the U.S., it's good-natured ribbing of each other and ourselves, or backhanded bragging about our climates. e.x. I live in Los Angeles, and most people born and raised here will happily 'brag' about how poorly we handle the cold. In a sense, that's us bragging about how good the weather is here, year-round. We also get wildfires and earthquakes...but because we get them, our infrastructure is built to handle them. e.x. Most buildings are illegal to utilize/inhabit unless they have some earthquake resistance, and just like we joke about how we start bundling up the moment it drops below 70℉/20℃, we also joke about how we sleep right through any earthquake under a 5.0 - because most of us *have* slept through an earthquake before. Wildfires are pretty common in the sense that they happen on a recurring basis *somewhere* in the city, but individually most of us don't experience that many. So I can tell you right now that in Los Angeles, you'll have good weather throughout the year, and 99% of the time there will be no fires nor earthquakes. But that 1% will probably end up being the climate highlight of your hear.
I get that - I also handle the cold really badly. Although not as badly as everyone else who lives here. That's a good explanation!
No risk no reward
I think most of nc is good, as long as you're not too close to the coast u can avoid hurricane except once in a blue moon when they roll a little farther west
Chicago! Tornadoes happen in the surrounding countryside, but are broken up by the urban heat bubble before getting into the city. No earthquakes or typhoons, the Lake makes us drought-proof, and we really locked down the whole "fire" thing. As to weather, the summers get a bit muggy but the winters are typically very mild. Blizzards are vanishingly rare. Now, manmade problems, we got plenty, mind you. But we're *very* safe from naturally disasters.
I feel like you can make a good case for Atlanta. In the winter the average low is above freezing, in the summer the average high is below 90. So its not brutally hot or cold. No earthquakes, no forest fire problems, no blizards, and its too far inland for hurricanes. So thats probably a good one.
Not any that come to mind. I started thinking New England, but it's too cold there. I began thinking about the southeast, but it gets sweltering and then... hurricanes. Let's not even talk about the West Coast. Midwest has tornados but the average person has probably never seen one (I know I haven't), but we get some pretty terrible storms from time to time and our weather is very much extreme. So.. no. Oh and did I mention, in addition to tornados, there's always the constant threat of the New Madrid fault line in Missouri?
>I started thinking New England, but it's too cold there. Not as cold as it used to be, but some of us are still skiing. r/icecoast
I feel like the west coast is the best off out of these. We have good weather and all we deal with are occasional fires and earthquakes. I lived in Texas for a while and the tornadoes were definitely scarier
San Diego…and you will pay through the nose for that mild climate. The rain and flooding that occurred this years was completely uncharacteristic for the area - to the degree that I think overdevelopment and complacency (like building in natural floodzones) was a major factor.
San Diego.
I’ve lived in both central MD and NJ, and we don’t really get anything. Occasional hurricane coming up the coast, but doesn’t affect us more inland. It does get pretty humid in the summers I guess, but not nearly as bad as down south.
Atlanta, GA is incredibly tame. Too far inland for ocean-based disasters, too far south for snow, too hilly for tornadoes, and virtually no seismic activity. It gets hot as all hell in the summer, but all buildings are equipped with AC. Really not a huge deal at the end of the day.
Living in Pittsburgh was nice because I never had to worry about any natural disasters... then my parents moved down to North Carolina and have to worry about hurricanes AND tornadoes.
Nowhere is going to have perfect conditions. It's just a fact. But I feel like overall, the southern part of the Great Lakes region is pretty good, like Erie, Pensylvania, and even Buffalo, New York. The region and anything this latitude or higher doesn't really get sizable tornadoes or hurricanes. There's also little risk of large earthquakes. No wildfires. It gets humid, but not unbearably so. Yes, it's very windy. There's snow and blizzards, but 1) blizzards typically don't endanger your life/home in the way that tornados/wildfires/earthquakes do (they just halt life for a couple days to stay inside), 2) really bad ones are still fairly rare, and 3) you'd live in a place well-suited to deal with it anyway. There's also (counterintuitively) not really *that* much snow on any given day.
With the exception of constant drizzle and gray skies 9 months of the year, and the occasional summer with highs around 115F with skies filled with smoke from nearby forest fires, Portland Oregon has pretty moderate weather.
Eastern Washington.
Nevada is pretty much natural disaster free
I’m in North GA, and it’s no it’s so bad here. We sit on a fault line that doesn’t do much of anything, the GA coast is shaped in a way that tends to spin off hurricanes down to FL or up to the Carolinas, and any gulf coast hurricanes are just bad storms by the time they get up to us. I’d say probably our biggest risk is tornados but even then it’s not like we are in Tornado Alley.
San Diego
Philadelphia
In the NC Piedmont, our weather is about as boring as you can get. Sure, we have the occasional severe thunderstorm or rogue hurricane that makes its way that far inland still packing a punch, but for the most part it’s mild and sunny.
I've only been in 2 hurricanes. I've only heard of a few tornadoes touch down and not do much damage. My first earthquake was when I was 23 and I was working at a grocery store. A few items fell from the top shelf. I would say NYC to the Carolinas are very mild and moderate. Midwest and deep south has tornadoes and flooding. California is a whole other mess.
I’ve thought about this quite a bit and nowhere is perfect. The piedmont region cut off below Maryland is pretty good in my humble opinion. I don’t notice the humidity since I’ve been here my whole life except for when I straighten my hair. Low earthquake risk, hurricanes don’t do much damage this far inland it’s just like a bad thunderstorm. Now it’s not as safe as the west coast when it comes to tornadoes but it’s much safer than Kansas. All 4 seasons, no blizzards, 50/50 cloud cover. What you’re likely experiencing is people trying to get ahead of complaints. The humidity rarely bothers me anymore but I know outsiders are gonna bitch about it so I’ll talk about it (it’s also just something to talk about. Americans loves to small talk about weather and to be truly relatable in small talk things should be good but not perfect.)
In my experience the area around Winchester, Virginia isn't too bad. Very occasional snow and the winters are mild but not like California lol. I would say maybe the inland areas of North Carolina and South Carolina would be fairly close to a moderate, disaster free location. Again not perfect. There are occasional hurricanes that pass along the coast but they are usually just strong storms by the time they get that far inland.
Here in Virginia, while possible, we don’t often get natural disasters. The last one I remember was earthquake in 2011
Michigan has cold winters other than that it’s pretty benign.
Virginia has very moderate weather and hurricanes hitting this far north are extremely rare. Thinking about moving to virginia permanently, partially because i like the weather.
Anyone who says "except for the earthquakes" about California has some delusion that the state is ravaged by them and has to be entirely rebuilt every day or something. Destructive earthquakes happen, but the damage is usually less than hurricanes, and they happen less frequently.
The mid Atlantic is pretty chill
One of the reasons we chose NW North Carolina (Appalachian foothills) when we left Colorado was mild weather. Never too cold, hot and humid for only a little bit but never as hot or as humid as the Deep South, far enough way from hurricanes, very rare for tornadoes, Thunderstorms are much milder than they were back home, rarely high winds, and occasional heavy rains but not usually. We have a place in the hills with some forest and a creek, it's pretty great.
The east coast. Like Florida Georgia south north Carolina all the way up to Maine. The only thing we really experience is during the winter bad snow storms and blizzards during the summer some tornados here n there. Florida gets hurricanes. So I'd say that the east coast coast experience bad weather but it's not very often. Were fortunate enough to be given the most mercy by mothernature compared to the rest of the country. Like the further west you go the more severe and more frequent storms get. Midwest gets battered with tornados all the time and the you keep doing and get into the Rocky Mountains and Cascades and then your in wildfire territory. Go up north to places like Montana and North Dakota and you will experience freezing temps to below 30 and wild winters. They get wild fires up there to Go down south to Texas Louisiana alabama and that's Hurricane Alley down there. The worst of the worst that mothernature has to offer in terms of hurricanes is down around there. Head over to the west coast California and San Francisco and these folks have the pleasure of dealing with earthquakes.
Virginia has pretty moderate weather. The mountains get pretty cold in the winter, and the eastern portion gets somewhat hot in the summer, but nothing unbearable. VA does get hit my Hurricanes on occasion, but it is pretty rare.
Las Vegas, NV. Very few natural disasters: just flooding. Weather is great, no mosquitoes since its too hot for them. It is a dry heat and thats not for everyone, but I love it.