Table 2.

Age-adjusted natural disaster and extreme weather mortality rate ratios, by race, ethnicity, and state, United States, 1999-2018 ^a

State	Non-Hispanic Black b	Hispanic b	Non-Hispanic Asian b	Non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native b
All states	1.87	0.79	0.29	7.34
Alabama	1.26	—c	—c	—c
Alaska	—c	—c	—c	6.87
Arizona	1.99	1.18	—c	9.26
Arkansas	1.85	—c	—c	—c
California	1.31	0.65	0.19	2.19
Colorado	—c	1.21	—c	—c
Connecticut	—c	—c	—c	—c
Delaware	3.59	—c	—c	—c
Florida	1.53	0.94	—c	—c
Georgia	2.41	0.93	—c	—c
Hawaii	—c	—c	—c	—c
Idaho	—c	—c	—c	—c
Illinois	2.15	0.79	—c	—c
Indiana	1.90	—c	—c	—c
Iowa	—c	—c	—c	—c
Kansas	1.53	—c	—c	—c
Kentucky	1.06	—c	—c	—c
Louisiana	2.86	1.51	—c	—c
Maine	—c	—c	—c	—c
Maryland	2.06	0.91	—c	—c
Massachusetts	2.22	—c	—c	—c
Michigan	2.11	1.06	—c	—c
Minnesota	3.08	—c	—c	8.67
Mississippi	1.39	—c	—c	—c
Missouri	2.29	—c	—c	—c
Montana	—c	—c	—c	5.02
Nebraska	—c	—c	—c	—c
Nevada	1.82	0.81	—c	—c
New Hampshire	—c	—c	—c	—c
New Jersey	2.21	0.83	—c	—c
New Mexico	—c	0.98	—c	13.42
New York	1.72	0.76	—c	—c
North Carolina	2.25	1.04	—c	—c
North Dakota	—c	—c	—c	6.37
Ohio	1.93	1.41	—c	—c
Oklahoma	1.78	1.22	—c	1.46
Oregon	—c	0.82	—c	—c
Pennsylvania	2.00	0.90	—c	—c
Rhode Island	—c	—c	—c	—c
South Carolina	2.28	—c	—c	—c
South Dakota	—c	—c	—c	13.29
Tennessee	1.64	1.28	—c	—c
Texas	1.64	0.87	0.38	—c
Utah	—c	—c	—c	—c
Vermont	—c	—c	—c	—c
Virginia	2.35	0.71	—c	—c
Washington	—c	0.60	—c	2.50
West Virginia	—c	—c	—c	—c
Wisconsin	1.55	—c	—c	—c
Wyoming	—c	—c	—c	—c

^aData source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ⁴³

^bThe reference group is non-Hispanic White.

^cRate ratios could not be calculated because underlying mortality counts and rates were suppressed or statistically unreliable.