Safest metro area in the US? Corvallis perhaps?

I just re-found this article from the New York Times from back in the days when I lived in Hawaii. It was an article on being safe in terms of natural disasters.  In our case, being in Hawaii, we were at risk of volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis hurricanes and such.

The thing that I found most interesting was where the study determined was the safest place in the United States to live... Good ol' Corvallis.

The map in this post is taken from this New York Times article.