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Ranked! Residential building codes in 18 hurricane-prone coastal states

Despite the fact that the Southeast has experienced more billion-dollar disasters in the past 30 years than the rest of the country combined, the coastal states have some of the weakest building codes in the U.S.

By Melissa Hillebrand | Updated on April 14, 2015

Despite the fact that the Southeast has experienced more billion-dollar disasters in the past 30 years than the rest of the country combined, a number of coastal states took no action to improve their building code systems since 2012, and a few have weaker systems in place, according to the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS).

In its 2015 “Rating the States” report, IBHS graded the 18 most hurricane-prone states located along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast on their building regulations. “Residential building codes are minimum life safety standards used in the design, construction and maintenance of homes,” the report stresses. “The function of building codes is to increase the safety and integrity of homes to reduce deaths, injuries and property damage from a wide range of hazards.”

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