Billion-dollar disasters

Central and Northeast Severe Weather

June 21 to 25, 2015 · Severe Storm · $1.5 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.5 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.2 billion at the time) and 1 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 346 most significant severe storm episodes filed in these dates, colored by kind.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

Losses, 2024 dollars
$1.5 billion
Losses at the time
$1.2 billion
Deaths
1

The losses and deaths are NCEI’s, counting everything the disaster did. The episodes below are only what the Weather Service filed in its Storm Events record, which counts damage differently and often not at all, so the two never add up and are shown apart.

By state, as filed

StateEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage filed
New Jersey5106$32 million
Illinois102014$27 million
Iowa36614$13 million
Ohio8000$7.0 million
Georgia9200$6.9 million
Pennsylvania13419$5.4 million
Michigan2607$4.7 million
North Dakota7800$2.9 million
South Dakota18001$2.9 million
Florida6712$2.3 million
Nebraska12000$1.7 million
Wisconsin4200$1.3 million
West Virginia6000$1.2 million
Texas1600$676,000
Mississippi4600$480,000
Virginia18400$452,000
South Carolina12010$392,000
New York6000$390,000
Indiana5422$340,000
Massachusetts2700$294,000
North Carolina11510$239,000
Minnesota4800$225,000
Missouri16720$221,000
Kentucky11300$204,000
Maryland13510$193,000
Connecticut2200$193,000
Arkansas3000$175,000
Delaware1700$130,000
Rhode Island800$97,000
Oklahoma1400$85,000
Kansas6600$76,000
Colorado45018$75,000
Wyoming4700$58,000
Louisiana1700$54,000
Tennessee4600$52,000
Alabama6020$49,000
New Mexico600$26,000
Arizona600$17,000
Puerto Rico1201$6,000
Alaska100$5,000
District of Columbia100$2,000
Montana2500
New Hampshire400
Maine300
Vermont100
Utah100

Episode by episode

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Sources

NOAA NCEI, U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2025), https://doi.org/10.25921/stkw-7w73, and the Storm Events Database for the episodes.