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  • Sociology
  • Environmental psychology

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  • Tornadoes cause significant damage and displacement.
  • Understanding post-disaster relocation is crucial for community resilience.

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  • To investigate multi-level factors influencing relocation decisions after EF4 and EF5 tornadoes.
  • To analyze the interplay of individual and community characteristics on post-tornado migration.

Main Methods:

  • Telephone survey of 536 tornado survivors, including older adults.
  • Geospatial analysis linking individual data with American Community Survey block group variables.
  • Logistic regression models to identify predictors of relocation.

Main Results:

  • Residential damage and homeownership strongly predict relocation.
  • Homeownership's effect on relocation is less pronounced at higher damage levels.
  • Community homeownership, higher-income households, and a higher percentage of older adults buffered relocation decisions.

Conclusions:

  • Individual factors like damage and homeownership are key drivers of relocation.
  • Community-level socio-economic and demographic factors play a significant role in mitigating displacement.
  • Findings inform disaster recovery policies, considering age and social vulnerability.