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Between 2019 and September 2024, natural disasters have left a big financial impact on many states. Hurricanes hit Louisiana and Florida the hardest, with Louisiana seeing $22.1 billion in hurricane damage and Florida close behind at $19.5 billion. Other states, like Hawaii and Colorado, faced significant wildfire costs, while Texas dealt with major damages from tornadoes, hurricanes, and flash floods.
Below, you'll find a detailed breakdown of the total and individual disaster costs for states and territories based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Natural disaster costs by state
Alabama
- Hurricane: $310,440,000
- Tornado: $32,509,300
- Flash Flood: $5,540,000
- Flood: $250,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
Alaska
- Flood: $37,572,740
- Flash Flood: $14,000,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
- Tornado: $0
- Wildfire: $0
American Samoa
- Flash Flood: $1,598,000
- Heavy Rain: $902,000
- Flood: $10,000
- Tsunami: $0
Arizona
- Flash Flood: $101,004,500
- Wildfire: $51,540,000
- Flood: $10,450,500
- Heavy Rain: $1,505,000
- Tornado: $915,000
- Heavy Snow: $55,000
Arkansas
- Tornado: $707,472,300
- Flood: $10,140,000
- Flash Flood: $3,778,000
- Heavy Snow: $90,000
- Heavy Rain: $25,000
- Wildfire: $0
California
- Flash Flood: $835,845,000
- Flood: $358,684,100
- Wildfire: $271,557,510
- Tsunami: $9,500,000
- Heavy Snow: $1,526,020
- Heavy Rain: $1,023,740
- Tornado: $649,000
Colorado
- Wildfire: $2,337,376,000
- Flood: $6,404,960
- Flash Flood: $4,597,610
- Tornado: $2,170,500
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
Connecticut
- Flash Flood: $9,217,010
- Tornado: $981,500
- Flood: $663,000
- Heavy Snow: $3,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Delaware
- Flash Flood: $3,650,000
- Flood: $0
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Tornado: $0
District of Columbia
- Flash Flood: $600,000
- Tornado: $200,000
- Flood: $0
Florida
- Hurricane: $19,514,079,000
- Flood: $1,101,002,100
- Tornado: $273,879,740
- Wildfire: $100,962,000
- Flash Flood: $87,230,000
- Heavy Rain: $105,000
Georgia
- Hurricane: $836,000,000
- Tornado: $50,259,000
- Flash Flood: $12,803,510
- Flood: $493,100
- Heavy Rain: $10,000
- Heavy Snow: $0
- Wildfire: $0
Guam
- Hurricane: $4,003,900,000
- Flash Flood: $34,500
- Flood: $500
- Wildfire: $0
Hawaii
- Wildfire: $5,554,866,000
- Flash Flood: $96,500,000
- Flood: $5,001,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
Idaho
- Wildfire: $139,458,000
- Flood: $12,550,100
- Flash Flood: $11,458,700
- Heavy Snow: $189,000
- Tornado: $1,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Illinois
- Flash Flood: $595,441,000
- Flood: $50,214,000
- Tornado: $26,539,500
- Heavy Snow: $75,000
- Wildfire: $10,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Indiana
- Tornado: $86,051,500
- Flash Flood: $80,857,000
- Heavy Snow: $1,540,000
- Flood: $567,750
- Wildfire: $35,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Iowa
- Tornado: $295,806,200
- Flood: $138,222,000
- Flash Flood: $18,878,000
- Wildfire: $300,000
- Heavy Rain: $40,000
- Heavy Snow: $0
Kansas
- Tornado: $80,698,000
- Flash Flood: $8,627,210
- Wildfire: $2,416,000
- Flood: $398,010
- Heavy Rain: $50,000
- Heavy Snow: $0
Kentucky
- Tornado: $23,939,000
- Flash Flood: $20,912,600
- Flood: $20,236,450
- Heavy Rain: $850,000
- Heavy Snow: $35,000
- Wildfire: $0
Louisiana
- Hurricane: $22,100,000,000
- Flash Flood: $664,032,000
- Tornado: $602,396,500
- Wildfire: $22,915,000
- Flood: $17,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
Maine
- Flood: $33,288,000
- Flash Flood: $17,153,000
- Tornado: $4,000
- Heavy Snow: $0
Maryland
- Tornado: $40,013,000
- Flash Flood: $2,511,000
- Flood: $215,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Massachusetts
- Flash Flood: $30,929,700
- Tornado: $5,116,000
- Flood: $1,918,900
- Heavy Snow: $182,500
- Heavy Rain: $25,000
Michigan
- Flash Flood: $434,681,000
- Tornado: $220,131,000
- Flood: $149,772,500
- Heavy Snow: $800,000
- Wildfire: $210,000
- Heavy Rain: $2,000
Minnesota
- Flood: $42,858,500
- Tornado: $27,737,000
- Flash Flood: $5,254,100
- Heavy Snow: $1,015,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Wildfire: $0
Mississippi
- Tornado: $466,942,100
- Hurricane: $99,500,000
- Flash Flood: $42,513,500
- Heavy Snow: $1,200,000
- Flood: $1,174,000
- Heavy Rain: $77,000
Missouri
- Tornado: $226,115,000
- Flash Flood: $183,175,500
- Flood: $5,601,500
- Heavy Snow: $400,000
- Wildfire: $200,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Montana
- Flood: $7,948,000
- Wildfire: $3,870,000
- Flash Flood: $3,305,000
- Heavy Snow: $135,000
- Tornado: $2,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Nebraska
- Flood: $550,984,500
- Flash Flood: $73,631,100
- Tornado: $28,076,000
- Wildfire: $7,960,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
Nevada
- Flash Flood: $28,541,000
- Flood: $18,242,000
- Wildfire: $345,000
- Heavy Rain: $180,000
- Tornado: $20,000
- Heavy Snow: $5,000
New Hampshire
- Flash Flood: $9,859,000
- Flood: $902,000
- Tornado: $94,000
- Heavy Snow: $0
New Jersey
- Flash Flood: $220,193,000
- Tornado: $5,447,000
- Flood: $101,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
New Mexico
- Wildfire: $199,580,000
- Flash Flood: $29,334,400
- Tornado: $4,705,000
- Flood: $2,523,000
- Heavy Snow: $740,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
New York
- Flash Flood: $614,456,000
- Flood: $54,786,500
- Tornado: $10,190,000
- Heavy Snow: $726,900
- Wildfire: $116,000
- Heavy Rain: $12,000
North Carolina
- Flash Flood: $2,163,563,000
- Tornado: $330,414,000
- Flood: $35,089,800
- Wildfire: $364,000
- Hurricane: $150,000
- Heavy Rain: $35,500
- Heavy Snow: $0
North Dakota
- Flood: $16,043,000
- Flash Flood: $15,942,000
- Tornado: $3,122,000
- Heavy Snow: $0
Ohio
- Tornado: $629,229,250
- Flash Flood: $82,709,850
- Flood: $55,886,450
- Heavy Snow: $20,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Oklahoma
- Tornado: $381,058,000
- Wildfire: $10,740,230
- Flash Flood: $4,669,000
- Flood: $250,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
Oregon
- Flood: $57,526,000
- Heavy Snow: $38,874,000
- Wildfire: $15,100,000
- Tornado: $144,000
- Heavy Rain: $50,000
- Flash Flood: $40,000
- Tsunami: $0
Pennsylvania
- Flash Flood: $387,699,000
- Tornado: $22,550,000
- Flood: $12,545,000
- Heavy Snow: $424,150
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Wildfire: $0
Puerto Rico
- Flash Flood: $15,164,300
- Flood: $461,100
- Wildfire: $400,000
- Tornado: $180,000
- Heavy Rain: $1,000
Rhode Island
- Flash Flood: $1,143,500
- Tornado: $430,000
- Flood: $14,300
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
South Carolina
- Tornado: $121,474,000
- Flash Flood: $9,521,040
- Flood: $2,974,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
South Dakota
- Flood: $195,304,200
- Tornado: $18,288,000
- Flash Flood: $8,520,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
- Wildfire: $0
Tennessee
- Tornado: $1,838,703,000
- Flash Flood: $292,716,810
- Flood: $98,456,300
- Wildfire: $2,500,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Heavy Snow: $0
Texas
- Tornado: $2,162,870,000
- Hurricane: $1,992,270,000
- Flash Flood: $1,959,771,700
- Flood: $518,854,000
- Wildfire: $20,535,500
- Heavy Snow: $6,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
Utah
- Flash Flood: $82,005,750
- Flood: $4,762,250
- Heavy Snow: $2,369,000
- Wildfire: $2,180,000
- Heavy Rain: $0
- Tornado: $0
Vermont
- Flash Flood: $176,802,000
- Flood: $5,468,000
- Tornado: $135,000
Virgin Islands
- Flash Flood: $17,000
- Flood: $0
- Hurricane: $0
- Tornado: $0
Virginia
- Flash Flood: $141,109,680
- Tornado: $51,842,170
- Flood: $18,221,300
- Wildfire: $1,554,000
- Heavy Rain: $1,419,730
- Heavy Snow: $0
Washington
- Wildfire: $995,175,650
- Flood: $335,586,400
- Flash Flood: $4,397,400
- Heavy Snow: $2,220,000
- Heavy Rain: $1,745,000
- Tornado: $240,000
- Tsunami: $0
West Virginia
- Flash Flood: $35,878,450
- Tornado: $2,986,000
- Flood: $2,464,760
- Heavy Rain: $77,000
- Heavy Snow: $71,000
Wisconsin
- Tornado: $60,008,000
- Flash Flood: $14,580,750
- Flood: $5,869,500
- Heavy Snow: $380,000
- Wildfire: $93,000
- Heavy Rain: $64,500
Wyoming
- Wildfire: $27,250,000
- Flood: $25,135,000
- Flash Flood: $4,162,380
- Tornado: $272,000
- Heavy Snow: $0
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