When will your state next be visited by a total solar eclipse?
In preparation for next month’s big event I put a map together of
the next time each state will be in the path of totality. Data from here. Some things to note that I didn’t include on the map:
– Oregon does get totality in 2108 but it’s such a thin slice it barely shows up
– timeanddate.com
and a couple other sources show more generous areas of totality at the
beginning and end of each eclipse, likely due to them counting an
eclipsed sun partially below the horizon as totality. The NASA
shapefiles I used do not take this into account and thus my data is a
bit more conservative. Checking, for example, the 2079 eclipse on timeanddate.com shows Delaware and Maryland making the cut whereas my map doesn’t.