{"id":299558,"date":"2014-05-01T13:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=299558"},"modified":"2014-05-02T13:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T18:11:27","slug":"smith-county-ranks-high-in-storm-damage-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=299558","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Ranks High in Storm Damage Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/lightning-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"lightning\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-299652\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 A recent study by Allstate has found Smith County has the highest frequency of lightning property damage claims in Texas in the past five years.  KETK reports that according to Allstate&#8217;s ranking, Smith County ranked number one in &#8220;Highest Frequency of Lightning Claims 2009-2013 by County&#8221; and 12th in &#8220;Highest Frequency of Wind and Hail Claims 2009-2013 by County.&#8221; &#8220;Texans are exposed to more types of natural disasters than any other state,&#8221; said Pam Nichols, an Allstate agent in Midland. &#8220;It\u2019s important for families to take precautions to protect themselves and their belongings for Texas-sized severe weather threats.&#8221; Allstate collected the data by measuring the frequency of hail and wind and lightning homeowner property claims from 2009-2013 to tally the top 25 counties which all had at least 3500 Allstate policies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A recent study by Allstate has found Smith County has the highest frequency of lightning property damage claims in Texas in the past five years. KETK reports that according to Allstate&#8217;s ranking, Smith County ranked number one in &#8220;Highest Frequency of Lightning Claims 2009-2013 by County&#8221; and 12th in &#8220;Highest Frequency of Wind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=299558\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Ranks High in Storm Damage Claims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 22:47:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299653,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299558\/revisions\/299653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}