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In just the last year, Red Cross chapters around the country have responded to more than 70,000 disasters, such as house and apartment fires.
Texas leads the nation most every year in flood-related deaths & damage.
Austin is a populated area with great runoff potential in one of the most flash-flood prone regions in North America. Flash flooding is the number one natural disaster threat to this entire area.
Texas is the state with the most flood/flash flood deaths in the past 36 years.
About 370,000 homes are the scenes of fires each year, and about 80 percent of deaths from fire occur in homes, according to the National Fire Protection Association.