Czajkowski, Jeffrey; Simmons, Kevin; Sutter, Daniel - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 3, pp. 1513-1531
Improvements in hurricane forecasts allowing for more timely evacuations from storm-surge zones are credited with reducing lethality of US landfalling hurricanes. The deadly reach of a hurricane, however, is not limited to storm-surge zones. About 80% of direct US hurricane fatalities since 1970...