"Disaster Belt" Counties Hit Hard, Again and Again

Thirty U.S. counties – about one in 100 - are so prone to natural disasters that they have been repeatedly socked with damaging and expensive storms.

Each has been declared a disaster area at least 10 times in the past 10 years, costing a total of $5 billion, according to USA Today.

While most counties are clustered in the "disaster belt" from Oklahoma and Texas to Florida, where tornadoes and hurricanes are most likely to strike, three upstate New York counties in the Catskill Mountains are notable because snow and flooding have repeatedly affected them.

Other notably disaster-prone areas, like Southern California and the Appalachian Mountain states, didn't necessarily make the 10 declarations in 10 years mark, but showed that they, too, suffer repeated disasters.

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