Atlas-of-Accountability-Fact-Sheet.pdf
https://rebuildbydesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Atlas-of-Accountability-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Vermont and Kentucky are not the places I would pick to lead the pack on the county-level.
California is sort of obvious on the state level because it is a large state and has a lot of "small" disasters (i.e. compared to a hurricane, most wildfires, with some exceptions, are small and most snowstorms and floods that rise to disaster level are fairly localized compared to hurricanes or the mass flooding in the lower midwest).
I think the per capita chart is great, but I'd love to see two more charts
- dollars of economic activity (i.e. state equivalent of GDP) per disaster
- ratio of dollars of economic activity to dollars of relief money
I'm afraid if you generated those charts, my dear old native state of Vermont would look even worse, certainly on the first metric. I think California would probably look better on the first metric, but maybe worse on the second one - the cost of those fires is pretty high.
The fact that Republican districts have more disasters is, I think, mostly a measure of rural areas being more prone to natural disasters. The size of the NYC bailout is a measure of the fact that when disasters do hit cities, they do a lot of damage.
Fascinating chart
PS - just think how much worse that would be if climate change were actually real.