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I guess it depends on where you live, growing up where I did it was considered a pretty major hazard and would cause issues with insurance.
Not that there was no trees, but you did have to be conscious of where they could fall and it was frequent that larger ones would be removed if too close to a house.
Basically grew up on top of a swamp that gets hit by hurricanes though, so maybe not a ubiquitous experience
we get a tree torn out (or at least significant parts of it torn off) every two years or so just in my neighborhood, when a summer storm gets funneled down into a narrow street. they sometimes crush cars, and i guess they sometimes fall into buildings. the individual chance is extremely low, and the neighborhood is immeasurably better for all the trees. you can walk to the store in the shade for the most part, it's amazing.