If you simply examined a map of all U.S. tornado tracks from 1950-2014, you might conclude your odds are disconcertingly high in the nation's mid-section and South.
Certainly, those are the tornado hot zones well known by most. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi may first come to mind.
The advance of technology such as Doppler and dual-polarization radar, cellular networks, smartphones, as well as a far greater number of storm spotters and the general increase in population means more weak tornadoes (EF0, EF1) are detected or observed today than, say, in the 1960s. This is known as "tornado inflation."
http://www.weather.com/storms/tornado/news/tornado-odds-of-being-hit
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