Why are houses made of wood rather than concrete in the tornado zones in the USA?

Question

Honestly, every year we hear about houses getting destroyed by tornados (and people getting buried under). They seem to be mostly wooden houses. So, why not build concrete houses, atleast in the high risk disaster prone areas?

In: 1750

Answer 1

I live in Joplin (rather right outside) and the hospital that was concrete was condemned. Concrete is not unstoppable and things break and things are tossed around in a tornado rather quickly. We are what once was a high risk area for tornadoes and there’s not a lot you can do about it. You just have to stick with your underground concrete container and hope for the best.