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Article: The safest cities in the United States.(The 10 Safest Cities)
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- Risk & Insurance
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Where's the safest city in the United States? Well, you can be sure it's not in Florida. You can also bet that it's not a sprawling A-list metropolitan area like Washington D.C. No, the safest cities in the nation are in places where terrorists, earthquakes, hurricanes and severe thunderstorms are least likely to strike. They are in relatively quiet places like Rochester, N.Y., Columbus, Ohio, and Phoenix, Ariz. In our analysis, Sacramento, Calif., is the safest city in the United States.
With four multibillion-dollar hurricanes making landfall within six weeks of one another this season, companies couldn't help but focus once again on catastrophe risk. ...