Billion-dollar disasters

Central Derecho

June 13, 2022 · Severe Storm · $3.4 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $3.4 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($3.2 billion at the time) and 1 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 116 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
$3.4 billion
Losses at the time
$3.2 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
Michigan1800$5.0 million
Ohio19300$2.8 million
North Dakota3300$2.1 million
Montana500$500,000
Kansas2600$266,000
Indiana5110$241,000
Virginia5100$142,000
West Virginia7410$122,000
South Dakota18400$73,000
Illinois8303$71,000
Georgia19502$30,000
Minnesota3100$23,000
Maryland1100$18,000
South Carolina2300$16,000
Pennsylvania200$15,000
Kentucky900$15,000
North Carolina2400$9,000
Alabama4900$2,000
New Mexico800$1,000
Florida100$1,000
Wyoming2700
Nebraska1800
Iowa900
Texas600
Missouri500
Utah400
Colorado300
Maine200
Tennessee100
Connecticut100
Delaware100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2022Tornadoes in 2022

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.