Are Servers Safe in Florida?

While I work within the web design and web development community, I rarely get involved with hosting of the sites that my company builds.  Now I could have gone and asked our development department, but I talk to them all of the time.  My company is located in Florida, and like many other Tampa Bay Web Design and Development companies, we host our sites in the Western United States.  I belive that we do this because of the constant threat of hurricanes and tornados during the summer and fall months.  Is this warranted?  It makes since but I would imagine a hosting company with servers in Florida would have back up servers in safer locations.