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# Long-run mortality from tropical cyclones concentrates in socially vulnerable counties
- URL: https://www.coios.me/long-run-mortality-from-tropical-cyclones-concentrates-in/
- Published: 2026-09-11T17:04:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T17:04:25.000Z
- Description: Among high-vulnerability counties in Texas, tropical cyclone exposure was associated with elevated all-cause mortality persisting long after landfall, whereas the effect in lower-vulnerability counties was not statistically significant.
- Author: Daniel Ryan
- Tags: Behavioural science, How much isolation and loneliness actually shorten lives, United States, #preprint, #new, #item

A panel study of 254 Texas counties over 50 years linked reconstructed tropical cyclone wind exposure to county-month all-cause mortality, stratified by social vulnerability. High-vulnerability counties showed a positive and significant mortality response to cyclone exposure; lower-vulnerability counties did not. The mortality burden from repeated cyclone exposure concentrated where physical hazard intensity overlapped with social vulnerability.

*Why it is interesting: Demonstrates that disaster mortality depends on population capacity to recover, not exposure alone; a finding relevant to how societies prepare for and absorb climate shocks.*

Source

[Research Square, 2026-09-10](https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10831452/v1?ref=coios.me)

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-10831452/v1

Type

Preprint

Design

County-month panel model, Texas 1968–2018, n=254 counties

Verdict

New finding

Driver

[How much isolation and loneliness actually shorten lives](https://www.coios.me/d-isolation-mortality/)