Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
THE COST OF EXTREME WEATHER
During 2019, there were 14 weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States. These events included 3 flooding events, 8 severe storms, 2 tropical cyclones, and 1 wildfire event. Overall, these events resulted in the deaths of 44 people and had significant economic effects on the areas impacted. 2019 is the fifth consecutive year (2015-2019) in which 10 or more billion-dollar weather and climate disaster events have impacted the United States.
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The distribution of damage from U.S. billion-dollar disaster events from 1980 to 2019 is dominated by tropical cyclone losses. Tropical cyclones have caused the most damage ($945.9 billion, CPI-adjusted) and also have the highest average event cost ($21.5 billion per event, CPI-adjusted). Severe storms have caused the highest number of billion-dollar disaster events (113), while the average event cost is the lowest ($2.2 billion, CPI-adjusted). Tropical cyclones are responsible for the highest number of deaths (6,502), followed by drought/heatwave events (2,993) and severe storms (1,642).
Number of billion-dollar disaster events, by year:
1980-2019 HIGH-COST DISASTERS
Each geographic region of the U.S. faces a unique combination of weather and climate events. This map reflects the costs of the billion-dollar disaster events impacting each state. Each disaster type has a distinct footprint of impact over time.
ALL DISASTERS:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
COSTS PER CAPITA
SOURCES: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate; Associated Press
NOTE: The map reflects a summation of billion-dollar events for each state affected (i.e., it does not mean that each state shown suffered at least $1 billion in losses for each event).
NOTE: Data includes events with less than $1 billion in damage at the time of the event, but after adjusting for Consumer Price Index (inflation), now exceed $1 billion in damages.
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The Northern Rockies to Northern High Plains had a cold and wet February and winter, resulting in near-record high mountain snowpack.
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Record-setting precipitation fell across the South and Midwest. Six states were record wet. Parts of the Ohio River had the highest crest in over 20 years. The flooding caused at least 6 fatalities.
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A potent storm system caused over 20 tornadoes across Alabama and widespread hail damage from Texas to Florida. It produced an EF-3 tornado that caused extensive damage in Jacksonville, Alabama.
March 18-21
Powerful Nor'easter impacted many Northeastern states. Widespread damage resulted from the combination of high winds, heavy snow and heavy coastal erosion. There were 9 fatalities.
Southeastern tornadoes and severe weather
March 1-3
COST: $1.1 billion
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The Southwest was warm and dry, with an early start to the wildfire season. The Tinder Fire burned over 12,600 acres in central Arizona. Months of drought in the Southern Plains contributed to active conditions. More than 340,000 acres burned across Oklahoma.
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Tornadoes and severe storms with large hail caused widespread damage across many Southern and Eastern states over a multi-day period. There were over 70 confirmed tornadoes. This system caused high winds and ice in northeastern states. There were 3 fatalities.
Southwest and Southern Plains wildfires
April 13-16
COST: $1.3 billion
Southern and Eastern tornadoes and severe weather
Numerous central states were impacted by large hail and tornadoes. Several northeastern states including New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont were also impacted by high wind damage from severe storms.
May 1-4
Severe storm damage across many Central states, followed by widespread high wind damage across the Northeast. There were one dozen tornadoes reported across Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut causing further damage. There were 5 fatalities.
Central and Northeastern severe weather
May 13-15
COST: $1.4 billion
Central and Eastern severe weather
Severe hail storms cause golf ball to baseball-sized hail and widespread damage in many areas from northern Denver to Boulder and Fort Collins. Many homes, businesses and vehicles were impacted. Utah also experienced moderate hail damage.
June 18-19
Large-hail impacts highly-populated area of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. Golfball to baseball-sized hail damages many homes, vehicles and businesses.
Colorado hail storm
June 6
COST: $1.3 billion
Texas hail storm
Much of the Northwest was dry in July. Idaho had its sixth driest July on record.
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At least 41 tornadoes and high wind damage from thunderstorms impact numerous Central and Eastern states over a multi-day event. The tornado damage was most severe across Iowa.
Northwest dryness
JULY 19-22
COST: $1.6 billion
Central and Eastern tornadoes and severe weather
Drought conditions were present across numerous Southwestern and Plains states. The most extreme conditions were across the Four Corners region of the Southwest. Field crops were damaged from lack of rainfall and ranchers were forced to sell-off livestock early due to high feeding costs.
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Severe hail impacts from baseball to softball size impacted several states including Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming. The most costly impacts occurred in numerous locations of eastern Colorado.
Southwest/Southern Plains drought
August 6-7
COST: $1.0 billion
Rockies and Plains hail storm
Much of the Southwest was warmer and drier than average. Arizona and Utah were record warm and California, Idaho, Nevada and Utah were top 10 dry.
SEPTEMBER
Hurricane Florence was a large and very slow moving hurricane that produced extreme rainfall across eastern North Carolina (up to 35.93") and South Carolina (up to 23.81"). Florence made landfall as a category 1, at Wrightsville Beach, NC with damaging storm surge up to 10 feet and wind gusts reported over 100 mph. However, the majority of the damage caused by Florence was due to the rainfall inland, which caused many rivers to surpass previous record flood heights. There were 53 fatalities.
Hot and dry Southwest
September 13-16
COST: $24 billion
Hurricane Florence
Texas was record wet with 2.7 times its average precipitation. Flooding impacted parts of the state.
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Texas flooding
California experienced the Kincade and Saddle Ridge wildfires. Alaska also suffered a near-historic wildfire season with more than 2.5 million acres burned. There were three fatalities.
JUNE - NOVEMBER
Record dryness and heat impacted parts of Florida duirng autumn. West Palm Beach had its record driest autumn, receiving 38% of normal rain.
California and Alaska Wildfires
NOVEMBER
COST: $4.5 billion
Florida dryness
Above-to much-above average precipitation fell across a large portion of the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous U.S. Georgia was record wettest, Florida and South Carolina were second wettest while Nebraska and North Carolina were each third wettest on record during December.
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Text and data from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
COST: $1.5 billion
COST: $1.4 billion
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COST: $3.0 billion
Powerful category 5 hurricane made landfall at Mexico Beach, Florida with devastating winds of 160 mph and storm surge in excess of 15 feet. Michael's intense winds reached well inland causing billions in damage costs to agriculture and forestry, as high winds hit during harvest season for numerous crops across several states. Michael is the third category 4 or higher storm to make landfall in the U.S. since 2017. There were 49 fatalities.
October 10-11
COST: $25 billion
Hurricane Michael
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$250
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($9.6 BILLION
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2,993
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$125
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$928
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$231
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1,628
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334
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($5.0 BILLION
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2018: 14
2017: 16
2016: 15
2015: 10
2014: 8
2013: 9
2012: 11
2011: 16
2010: 6
2009: 7
2008: 12
2007: 5
2006: 7
2005: 6
2004: 5
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2002: 4
2001: 2
2000: 4
1999: 5
1998: 10
1997: 3
1996: 4
1995: 5
1994: 6
1993: 5
1992: 7
1991: 4
1990: 3
1989: 5
1988: 1
1986: 2
1985: 5
1984: 2
1983: 5
1982: 3
1981: 2
1980: 3
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Jan. 4, 2018: A vehicle parked on Abbott Avenue is engulfed by snowdrifts during a snowstorm that hit the New Jersey Shore in Ocean Grove, N.J.
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$382.7 billion
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$41.1 billion
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$25.0 billion
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$12.0 billion
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$2.2 trillion
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$382.7 billion
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$34.2 billion
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$3.1 billion
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$2.6 billion
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AP Photo/Charles Krupa
Jan. 5, 2018: Mollie Lane carries a shovel-full of snow down the street to a pile while digging her car out in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston. Frigid temperatures, some that could feel as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region attempted to clean up from a massive winter storm.
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer
Jan. 4, 2018: A worker clears the sidewalk in Boston. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer
Jan. 4, 2018: A Boston firefighter wades through flood waters from Boston Harbor on Long Wharf in Boston. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Feb. 24, 2019: Broken lumber, loose paneling, insulation, destroyed pews are all that remain of the First Pentecostal Church in Columbus, Miss. after being hit by a tornado.
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Feb. 24, 2019: Tornado strewn debris and fallen trees take their toll in Columbus, Miss. Shattered businesses and wrecked homes dotted the South as severe storms followed a weekend of drenching rains and a rising flood threat.
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Feb. 24, 2019: Charles Lowery of Columbus, Miss., rescues carved stands from the remains of his home following a tornado. Lowery lamented not staying at home and protecting his property as his home was looted that evening.
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March 18, 2019: Flooding along the Missouri River in River Sioux, Iowa.
AP Photo/Bill Sikes
March 18, 2019: Flooding along the Missouri River in rural Iowa north of Omaha, Neb.
AP Photo/Orlin Wagner
March 18, 2019: Volunteers fill sandbags in preparation for flooding along the Missouri River in St Joseph, Mo. Hundreds of homes flooded in several Midwestern states after rivers breached at least a dozen levees following heavy rain and snowmelt in the region.
U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Rachelle Blake
March 17, 2019: Missouri River floodwaters poured on to much the Nebraska Offutt Air Force Base that houses the U.S. Strategic Command. Troops scrambled to sandbag and save sensitive equipment, munitions and aircraft.
AP Photo/Orlin Wagner
April 13, 2018: A line of thunderstorms pass over a barn near Baldwin City, Kan.
The area was under a severe thunderstorm warning.
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April 14, 2018: A parked car covered in debris sits next to the George Reece Courts, an apartment complex in Meridian, Miss., after a possible tornado hit the area. The storm caused downed power lines, fallen trees and damaged several rooftops.
Paula Merritt / The Meridian Star, via AP
April 14, 2018: Part of the roof was ripped away from Magnolia Middle School in Meridian, Miss., as heavy storms hit the area causing downed power lines, structure damage and debris to be strewn throughout the area.
AP Photo/Orlin Wagner
May 15, 2018: A thunderstorm moves across the Flint Hills near Alma, Kan.
AP Photo/John Minchillo
May 29, 2019: Residents cleans up in a neighborhood damaged by a tornado storm system that passed through Dayton, Ohio. Tens of thousands of Ohio residents were without power or water in the aftermath of strong tornadoes that spun through the Midwest.
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
May 16, 2018: Trees and power lines are scattered across a road in Newburgh, N.Y. Powerful storms pounded the Northeast on Tuesday with torrential rain and marble-sized hail, leaving at least two people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power.
AP Photo/David Zalubowski
May 14, 2018: South Holly Street is turned into a torrential river as heavy rains and hail swamp the roadway and engulf a car parked at the curb just north of Hampden Avenue in southeast Denver. The high-powered storm swept over the area and dumped large amounts of marble-sized hail and heavy rain, snarling traffic in densely-populated parts of the metropolitan area.
AP Photo/David Zalubowski
May 14, 2018: A motorist drives through a flooded intersection after a spring storm packing heavy rains and hail hit southeast Denver. The high-powered storm swept over the area and dumped large amounts of marble-sized hail and heavy rain, snarling traffic in densely-populated parts of the metropolitan area.
AP Photo/Jim Mone
March 27, 2019: Mississippi River floodwaters inundate the pavilion and a play area at Harriet Island in St. Paul, Minn.
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
April 5, 2019: A Issaquena County, Miss., resident, posts the sentiment calling for a flood control and drainage project as backwater surrounds the house.
AP Photo/Adrian Sainz
July 2, 2019: Floodwaters inundate a farm in Ripley, Tenn. Water from the bulging Mississippi River flooded thousands of acres of farmland in west Tennessee.
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
July 16, 2019: A vendor shack in Davenport, Iowa near the Mississippi River shows high water marks from past floods.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
July 12, 2018: Baked earth is shown in a dry watering hole outside Salt Lake City. This now dried up watering hole previously provided water to a herd of wild horses. Harsh drought conditions in parts of the American West are pushing wild horses to the brink and forcing extreme measures to protect them.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
June 29, 2018: Wild horses walk to a watering hole outside Salt Lake City. Harsh drought conditions in parts of the American West are pushing wild horses to the brink and forcing extreme measures to protect them. Federal land managers had emergency roundups in the deserts of western Utah and central Nevada.
AP Photo/Paul Davenport
June 26, 2018: Trujillo Meadows Reservoir and a thin tracing of the headwaters of Rio de Los Pinos in the Rio Grande National Forest west of Antonito, Colorado. The drought and wildfire situation affected Colorado and the neighboring states of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette via AP
August 7, 2018: Cars were impacted by the hail that in places was believed to be the size of softballs most prominently in Fountain and Security-Widefield, Colo.
AP Photo/The Gazette, Jerilee Bennett
August 6, 2018: Large hail the size of baseballs lie on the ground near The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo., after a storm hit parts of El Paso County.
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
September 17, 2018: Floodwater from Hurricane Florence surrounds homes in Dillon, S.C.
AP Photo/David Goldman
September 17, 2018: Bob Richling carries Iris Darden, 84, out of her flooded home as her daughter-in-law, Pam Darden, gathers her belongings in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C.
AP Photo/David Goldman
September 17, 2018: David Darden Jr., carries out a photo of his daughters as well as other personal items from his mother's flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C.
AP Photo/Steve Helber
September 15, 2018: Flood waters from Hurricane Florence inundate the town of Engelhard, N.C.
AP Photo/Chuck Burton
September 16, 2018: Cars try to navigate a flooded road leading to Interstate 40 in Castle Hayne, N.C., after damage from Hurricane Florence cut off access to Wilmington, N.C.
AP Photo/Steve Helber
September 16, 2018: Farm buildings are inundated with floodwater from Hurricane Florence near Trenton, N.C.
AP Photo/Mic Smith
Sept. 5, 2019: An Isle of Palms resident clears the drain on Hartnett Blvd. during Hurricane Dorian at the Isle of Palms, S.C., in Charleston, S.C.
AP Photo/Tom Copeland
Sept. 6, 2019: Beaufort police check a sailboat for occupants in Beaufort, N.C. after Hurricane Dorian passed the North Carolina coast. Dorian howled over North Carolina's Outer Banks — a much weaker but still dangerous version of the storm that wreaked havoc in the Bahamas — flooding homes in the low-lying ribbon of islands.
AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins
Sept. 6, 2019: Friends and neighbors sift through what is left of a damaged trailer at the Boardwalk RV Park in Emerald Isle, North Carolina.. A tornado from an outer band of Hurricane Dorian damaged about a dozen RVs nearly a day before Dorians eye passed just offshore of the island.
AP Photo/Steve Helber
Sept. 7, 2019: North Carolina Division of highways crews work to clear the beach road to Hatteras Island, NC., after Hurricane Dorian crossed the Outer Banks.
NASA Photo via AP
Sept. 5, 2019: Satellite image of Hurricane Dorian provided by NASA from the International Space Station. A much weaker but still dangerous version of the storm that wreaked havoc in the Bahamas threw a scare into year-round residents in North Carolina who tried to tough it out.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
November 10, 2018: The Camp Fire burns along a ridgetop near Big Bend, Calif. Sheriff's investigators had the agonizing task of scouring through the wreckage of California's most destructive fire on record in search of the dead.
AP Photo/John Locher
November 16, 2018: A firefighter searches for human remains in a trailer park destroyed in the Camp Fire, in Paradise, Calif. The massive wildfire killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes burned for more than two weeks.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
November 8, 2018: Nurse Cassie Lerossignol hugs a coworker as the Feather River Hospital burns while the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. The scale of disaster in the Camp Fire was unprecedented, but the scene of people fleeing wildfire was familiar, repeated numerous times over the past three years up and down California.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
November 15, 2018: Residences leveled by a wildfire line a neighborhood in Paradise, Calif.
October 24, 2019
Embers fly across a roadway as the Kincade Fire burns through the Jimtown community of Sonoma County, California.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
AP Photo/Noah Berger
July 27, 2018: Homes leveled by the Carr Fire line the Lake Keswick Estates area of Redding, Calif.
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Flooding near the Platte River in in Plattsmouth, Neb., south of Omaha
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Pastor Steve Blaylock comforts his wife, Pat Blaylock, amid the rubble that was once the First Pentecostal Church after a tornado came through Columbus, Mississippi.
AP Photo Rogelio V. Solis
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Total costs: $1.75 trillion
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2018
EVENTS
SINCE
1980
PER CAPITA
COSTS
SOURCES: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters; NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate; Associated Press
HOME
2018
EVENTS
SINCE 1980
COSTS
PER CAPITA
$147
$31
$946
113
1,642
$248
347
$85
DEC
NOV
OCT
SEP
AUG
JUL
JUN
MAY
APR
MAR
FEB
JAN
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
JANUARY
Tropical storm and its remnants cause 24 to 36 inches of rainfall over a 3-day period. Thousands were impacted by flood water. There were five fatalities.
SEPTEMBER 17 - 21
Tropical Storm Imelda
COST: $5 billion
Numerous tornadoes caused widespread damage across northern Dallas. High winds and hail also caused damage in other southcenteral states.
There were two fatalities.
OCTOBER 20
Texas Tornadoes and Central Severe Weather
COST: $1.7 billion
California experienced the Kincade and Saddle Ridge wildfires. Alaska also suffered a near-historic wildfire season with more than 2.5 million acres burned. There were three fatalities.
JUNE - NOVEMBER
California and Alaska Wildfires
COST: $4.5 billion
California experienced the Kincade and Saddle Ridge wildfires. Alaska also suffered a near-historic wildfire season with more than 2.5 million acres burned. There were three fatalities.
JUNE - NOVEMBER
California and Alaska Wildfires
COST: $4.5 billion
Category 1 hurricane made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, after devastating the northern Bahama Islands. There were 10 fatalities.
AUG 28 - SEPT 6
Hurricane Dorian
COST: $1.6 billion
California experienced the Kincade and Saddle Ridge wildfires. Alaska also suffered a near-historic wildfire season with more than 2.5 million acres burned. There were three fatalities.
JUNE - NOVEMBER
California and Alaska Wildfires
COST: $4.5 billion
Hail storms across Denver and Fort Collins damaged many homes and vehicles.
JULY 4 - 5
Colorado Hail Storms
COST: $1 billion
Major flooding hit many Southern Plains states. High water disrupted barge traffic along the Mississippi River. There were four fatalities.
MARCH 15 - JULY 31
Mississippi River, Midwest and Southern Flooding
COST: $6.2 billion
California experienced the Kincade and Saddle Ridge wildfires. Alaska also suffered a near-historic wildfire season with more than 2.5 million acres burned. There were three fatalities.
JUNE - NOVEMBER
California and Alaska Wildfires
COST: $4.5 billion
Thousands of homes, cars and businesses were flooded due a combination of high rivers, levee failure and persistently heavy rainfall. There were five fatalities.
MAY 20 - JUNE 14
Arkansas River Flooding
COST: $3 billion
California experienced the Kincade and Saddle Ridge wildfires. Alaska also suffered a near-historic wildfire season with more than 2.5 million acres burned. There were three fatalities.
JUNE - NOVEMBER
California and Alaska Wildfires
COST: $4.5 billion
Four-day tornado
outbreak produced 190 tornadoes in addition to damaging hail and thunderstorm winds. There were three fatalities.
MAY 26 - 29
Rockies, Central and Northeast Tornadoes and Severe Weather
COST: $4.5 billion
Central severe storms across the Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Texas damaged many homes, businesses and vehicles.
MAY 16 - 18
Central Severe Weather
COST: $1 billion
Persistent severe storms impacted numerous states from Texas to North Carolina. Tornadoes and damaging hail particularly affected Texas, Louisiana and North Carolina.
MAY 7 - 13
South and Southeast Severe Weather
COST: $1.5 billion
There were more than 50 tornadoes across central Mississippi and Alabama, with 25 additional tornadoes across several eastern states. Damaging hail and high winds were widespread across many Southern and and Eastern states. There were seven fatalities.
APRIL 13 - 14
Southern and Eastern Tornadoes and Severe Weather
COST: $1.3 billion
Historic Midwest flooding inundated millions of acres of agriculture, numerous cities and towns, and caused widespread damage to roads, bridges, levees, and dams. There were three fatalities.
MARCH 14 - 31
Missouri River and North Central Flooding
COST: $10.8 billion
Hail storm over the Dallas metroplex damaged many homes, businesses and vehicles. Oklahoma also received hail damage resulting from the same severe weather system.
MARCH 22 - 24
Texas Hail Storm
COST: $1.6 billion
Tornadoes, severe weather and flooding in the south and high-wind damage across many Ohio Valley and Northeastern states. This storm system produced heavy rain that caused major flooding along parts of the Ohio, Mississippi and Tennessee rivers. There were two fatalities.
FEBRUARY 23 - 25
Southeast, Ohio Valley and Northeast Severe Weather
COST: $1.3 billion
Tornado
photos
Wildfire
photos
Wildfire
photos
Flooding
photos
Wildfire
photos
Flooding
photos
Tornado
photos
Hurricane
photos
Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Photo
AP Photo/John Minchillo
May 29, 2019: Residents cleans up in a neighborhood damaged by a tornado storm system that passed through Dayton, Ohio. Tens of thousands of Ohio residents were without power or water in the aftermath of strong tornadoes that spun through the Midwest.
AP Photo/John Minchillo
May 29, 2019: Residents cleans up in a neighborhood damaged by a tornado storm system that passed through Dayton, Ohio. Tens of thousands of Ohio residents were without power or water in the aftermath of strong tornadoes that spun through the Midwest.
AP Photo/John Minchillo
May 29, 2019: Local volunteers help organize relief support for victims of a tornado storm system that passed through Dayton, Ohio. Tens of thousands of Ohio residents were without power or water in the aftermath of strong tornadoes that spun through the Midwest.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Nov. 1, 2019: Flames from a backfire consume a hillside as firefighters battle the Maria Fire in Santa Paula, Calif.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Nov. 26, 2019: A firefighter crosses Highway 154 while battling the Cave Fire in Los Padres National Forest, Calif., above Santa Barbara.
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
Oct. 31, 2019: Bernadette Laos looks for salvageable items in her home that was destroyed by the Kincade Fire near Geyserville, Calif.
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
Oct. 31, 2019: Justo and Bernadette Laos show a photo of the home they rented that was destroyed by the Kincade Fire near Geyserville, Calif.
Oct. 24, 2019: A wildfire approaches a residential subdivision in Santa Clarita, Calif.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Oct. 28, 2019: Stephanie LaFranchi holds her dog Jadzia while examining her husband's family home, leveled by the Kincade Fire, in Calistoga, Calif.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Oct. 31, 2019: Smoke from the Maria Fire billows above Santa Paula, Calif.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
AP Photo/David Swanson
Oct. 11, 2019: A bystander watches the Saddleridge Fire in Sylmar, Calif.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
Nov. 26, 2019: A helicopter drops water on the Cave Fire burning along Highway 154 in Los Padres National Forest, Calif. above Santa Barbara.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Oct. 28, 2019: Hand crews work a wildfire-damaged hillside as the Getty fire burns on Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles.
NOTE: The map reflects a summation of billion-dollar events for each state affected (i.e., it does not mean that each state shown suffered at least $1 billion in losses for each event).
Each geographic region of the U.S. faces a unique combination of weather and climate events. This map reflects the costs of the billion-dollar disaster events impacting each state. Each disaster type has a distinct footprint of impact over time.
COST PER CAPITA
ALL
DROUGHT
FLOOD
FREEZE
CYCLONE
SEVERE STORM
WILDFIRE
WINTER STORM
(Billions, CPI-adjusted)
Less than $2
$2 - $4
$4 - $6
$6 - $8
$8 - $10
More than $10
ALL
ALL DISASTERS:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
(Billions, CPI-adjusted)
DROUGHT:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
Less than $1
$1 - $2
$2 - $3
$3 - $4
$4 - $5
More than $5
DROUGHT
(Billions, CPI-adjusted)
FLOODING:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
Less than $0.5
$0.5 - $1.0
$1.0 - $1.5
$1.5 - $2.0
More than $2.0
FLOOD
(Millions, CPI-adjusted)
FREEZE:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
Less than $50
$55 - $100
$100 - $150
$150 - $200
More than $200
FREEZE
(Billions, CPI-adjusted)
SEVERE STORM:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
Less than $0.5
$0.5 - $1.0
$1.0 - $1.5
$1.5 - $2.0
$2.0 - $2.5
More than $2.5
SEVERE STORM
(Billions, CPI-adjusted)
CYCLONE:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
Less than $2
$2 - $4
$4 - $6
$6 - $8
$8 - $10
More than $10
CYCLONE
(Billions, CPI-adjusted)
WILDFIRE:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
Less than $0.5
$0.5 - $1.0
$1.0 - $1.5
$1.5 - $2.0
More than $2.0
WILDFIRE
(Millions, CPI-adjusted)
WINTER STORM:
1980-2019 costs per one million residents
Less than $100
$100 - $200
$200 - $300
$300 - $400
$400 - $500
More than $500
WINTER STORM
Tornado photos
Tornado photos
Tornado photos
Flooding photos
Wildfire photos
Wildfire photos
California experienced the Kincade and Saddle Ridge wildfires. Alaska suffered near-historic wildfires. There were three fatalities.
JUNE - NOVEMBER
California and Alaska Wildfires
COST: $4.5 billion
Wildfire photos
Wildfire photos
DROUGHT
FLOODING
FREEZE
CYCLONE
SEVERE STORM
WILDFIRE
WINTER STORM
DROUGHT
DAMAGE COSTS
DROUGHT FATALITIES
DROUGHT
FLOODING
FREEZE
CYCLONE
SEVERE STORM
WILDFIRE
WINTER STORM
FLOODING
DAMAGE COSTS
FLOODING FATALITIES
DROUGHT
FLOODING
FREEZE
CYCLONE
SEVERE STORM
WILDFIRE
WINTER STORM
FREEZE
DAMAGE COSTS
FREEZE FATALITIES
DROUGHT
FLOODING
FREEZE
CYCLONE
SEVERE STORM
WILDFIRE
WINTER STORM
CYCLONE
DAMAGE COSTS
CYCLONE FATALITIES
DROUGHT
FLOODING
FREEZE
CYCLONE
SEVERE STORM
WILDFIRE
WINTER STORM
SEVERE STORM
DAMAGE COSTS
SEVERE STORM FATALITIES
DROUGHT
FLOODING
FREEZE
CYCLONE
SEVERE STORM
WILDFIRE
WINTER STORM
WILDFIRE
DAMAGE COSTS
WILDFIRE FATALITIES
FLOODING
DAMAGE COSTS
FLOODING
FATALITIES
FREEZE
DAMAGE COSTS
FREEZE
FATALITIES
CYCLONE
DAMAGE COSTS
CYCLONE
FATALITIES
SEVERE STORM
DAMAGE COSTS
SEVERE STORM
FATALITIES
WILDFIRE
DAMAGE COSTS
WILDFIRE
FATALITIES
WINTER STORM
DAMAGE COSTS
WINTER STORM
FATALITIES