Is it the shape or the material?

I notice that the destroyed house next to it seems to have been made of the typical light timber frame and regular glass windows.

By comparison, my parents' house in Puerto Rico isn't dome-shaped -- it's rather boxy, but it is constructed with fairly thick concrete walls on the exterior and has hurricane shutters over all the windows. The biggest problem that it's ever had from hurricanes (e.g., Hurricane Maria) has been from flooding and extended loss of power rather than anything structural.