Year Total Direct Damage Fatalities Injuries Property ($2016b) Crop ($2016b)

1960 - 2016 $896.7 32,815 244,053 $725.0 $171.7 Annual Average $15.7 576 4,282 $12.7 $3.0

Year Costliest Deadliest Year 2005 $126.8 1,638 1995 1992 $57.9 1,312 2005 2012 $41.4 1,054 1980 1993 $37.5 1,025 2011 1994 $36.7 998 1972 2004 $34.1 917 1999 1980 $27.4 871 1974 2008 $26.2 816 1969 1989 $25.8 748 1971 2011 $25.3 718 1960 1995 $22.0 707 1965 1998 $21.9 671 1998 2001 $20.1 669 1983 1990 $18.9 631 1989 2016 $18.4 623 1985

Losses ($2016 billion): Fatalities:

Most Hazard Events Highest Losses Most Fatalities

State Damage ($2016b)

Florida $112.9 California $104.8 Louisiana $98.5 Texas $78.2 Mississippi $54.0

State Counts

Iowa 59,179 Texas 49,147 Ohio 44,482 New York 39,506 Virginia 36,602

State Fatalities

Texas 2,437 Illinois 1,822 California 1,717 Pennsylvania 1,652 Louisiana 1,420

1960-2016 U.S. Hazard Losses

SUMMARY OF LOSSES

COSTLIEST AND DEADLIEST HAZARDS

ANNUAL LOSSES RECORD YEARS

MOST IMPACTED STATES

SOURCE: SPATIAL HAZARDS EVENTS AND LOSSES DATABASE (SHELDUS), VERSION 16.1 formerly at the University of South Carolina

PHONE: 602-496-1040 EMAIL: SHELDUS@ASU.EDU WWW.SHELDUS.ORG

TOTAL LOSSES FROM NATURAL HAZARDS BETWEEN 1960 AND 2016

Most Hazard Events Highest Losses Most Fatalities

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3(3): 193-208. *Figures for hazard mortality and injuries are underreported, especially for Hurricane Katrina as well as drought/heat events. For more information on Presidential Disaster Declarations go to FEMA (http://www.fema.gov/disasters)

County State Damage ($2016 billion)

Los Angeles CA $46.1 Miami-Dade FL $17.5 Broward FL $16.3 Collier FL $15.3 Monmouth NJ $12.8 Ocean NJ $12.1 Monroe FL $11.8 Skamania WA $9.6 Linn IA $8.8 St. Tammany LA $8.2

County State Fatalities

Cook IL 1,250 Philadelphia PA 638 New Orleans LA 590 Baltimore MD 310 Los Angeles CA 287 Clark NV 255 Harris TX 227 Dallas TX 200 Larimer CO 196 Jasper MO 178

County State Counts

Polk IA 1,572 Oneida NY 1,191 Erie NY 1,155 Harris TX 1,107 Middlesex MA 1,086 Chautauqua NY 1,083 Tarrant TX 1,059 Story IA 1,054 San Bernardino CA 1,026 Chittenden VT 1,015

Between 1960 and 2016, there were 2,198 Presidential Disaster Declarations (PDDs). The annual average number of PDDs is 39. The states that received PDDs most frequently were:

Texas: 88 California: 77 Oklahoma: 74 Florida: 68 New York: 67 Kentucky: 61 Louisiana: 59 Alabama: 58 Arkansas: 58 Missouri: 57 West Virginia: 55 Tennessee: 55 Mississippi: 55 Iowa: 55 Illinois: 52 Minnesota: 52 Nebraska: 52

Cartoon reprinted with permission from the National Hazards Research Center in Boulder, CO. For more information on Presidential Disaster Declarations go to FEMA (http://www.fema. gov/disasters).

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