More than 70% of the 8 million manufactured homes in America were built after 1976. Other people, including many researchers and residents, use the terms interchangeably.
Federal housing officials use the term manufactured housing. The manufactured housing industry - which disputes that there’s any disproportionate danger - insists on calling the structures manufactured homes if they are built after hurricane-based federal standards in 1976 and mobile homes if they are built before, saying age of the home matters. Nine others died in site homes and the rest were killed in other places, such as in vehicles. by tornadoes were in some form of manufactured housing when they died, according to NOAA data. So far this year, at least 45 of the 74 people killed in the U.S. When the wind hits the mobile homes, “it’s like a house of cards. Less than 100 yards from where four of those people died was a permanent home that had little more than shingle damage, he said. All but one were thrown at least 1,000 feet from their homes, with the seventh person thrown at least 500 feet, said Ernie Baggett, the former emergency management chief for Autauga County, Alabama. The first tornado deaths this year were in Alabama in January, killing seven people, all in mobile homes.
Those are not the areas where tornadoes usually hit.Īuburn University engineering professor David Roueche called manufactured homes in non-coastal places “death traps compared to most permanent homes” when it comes to tornadoes. Part of the problem is that federal housing rules that call for tougher manufactured home standards, including anchoring, only apply in hurricane zones, which is most of Florida and then several counties along the coast. While the dangers of tornadoes to mobile homes have long been known, and there are ways to mitigate the risk, the percentage of total tornado deaths that happen in mobile homes has been increasing. Meanwhile, less than 6% of America’s housing units are manufactured homes, according to the U.S. Since 1996, tornadoes have killed 815 people in mobile or manufactured homes, representing 53% of all the people killed at home during a tornado, according to an Associated Press data analysis of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tornado deaths. Tornadoes in the United States are disproportionately killing more people in mobile or manufactured homes, especially in the South, often victimizing some of the most socially and economically vulnerable residents.
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