No, Minnesota is NOT the most dangerous state to live in. Check out this NOAA map, listing billion dollar disasters in the recent past. The greatest risk: the southeastern U.S. Not only do residents from Texas to North Carolina see floods and tornadoes, but they get bullied by monster-hurricanes as well. Suddenly the arctic fronts don't look quite so bad - they seem to repel storms (big & bad enough to have their own name!)