I’m sure you’ve heard this on the news before: another trailer park hit by a tornado. All residents are shown standing in disbelief that all their trailers are demolished, while neighbors’ houses outside the trailer park appear intact. Perhaps it is the atmospheric pressure of all the metal exteriors that caused the tornado to hit the trailer park and not the houses.

And Oklahoma? Why have some of these people been through three tornadoes and three trailers crushed, and they don’t seem to know why? Could it be that it’s one of those common sense problems? Don’t buy a trailer and put it right in the middle of a tornado alley. Duh ……

There are people who believe that trailer parks attract tornado activity. There are even surveys conducted online that attempt to show a relationship between trailer purchase density and tornado density. They show that Florida, with the most tornadoes, is number three on the trailer shopping list. Indiana, which ranks third in tornado activity, ranks first in trailer purchases.

What this doesn’t take into account is that trailer affordability leads to more trailers in a given area, and if you’re in a tornado-prone area, then of course more will flatten out, and this includes Oklahoma or Kansas.

In Florida, the real estate market for a regular rebar-built home has been priced so high that most middle-income people view mobile or manufactured homes as an affordable alternative to housing. The price of manufactured or mobile homes is often much lower compared to regular homes in some areas, such as Florida. On the other hand, there are parts of the country where a mobile home or manufactured home works much the same as a comparable conventional home, such as in Missouri.

In the Bay Area, many people turn to mobile homes or manufactured homes due to outrageous home prices, it is a very affordable way to live in a high-priced market where conventional housing is out of reach. The same goes for Florida. The fact is, mobile homes or manufactured homes may be the only way for some people to buy a home, whether it’s in an area prone to tornadoes or earthquakes or not.

There is no evidence that tornadoes are attracted to RV parks, but due to their construction and the fact that many are not anchored to the ground on a normal foundation such as a basement, it makes them susceptible to more damage than surrounding neighborhoods. of conventional sticks. Built housing. The other thing is, mobile home sales are often the highest in the most poverty-stricken states. These are also the states that tend to have the most natural disasters, whether in the south or in an earthquake or tornado zone.

The fact is, mobile homes or manufactured homes can be an affordable way to put a roof over your head, and while it shouldn’t be seen as an investment as many depreciate versus appreciate, it is the part of the country that you decide to put . which determines if your chances of tornado damage are higher.