While it may appear tornadoes target mobile home parks, they actually do not. An EF1 tornado might do significant damage to a mobile home, and cause minor damage to a site built home, looking like the tornado “skipped” the house. Mobile homes are, in general, much easier for a tornado to damage and destroy than well-built houses and office buildings. A mobile home, or manufactured home, by definition, is built at a factory and taken to the place they will occupy, so they are much more affordable than a house built on-site. They are often built with lighter-weight materials, which do not hold up well in tornadic winds.
Straight-line winds can also destroy a mobile home as easily as a tornado, especially one that is not anchored. Any wind gust that is sustained for 3 seconds over 50 mph can cause damage to mobile homes.   _{Your Comment}