Billion-dollar disasters

Central Severe Storms

June 24 to 26, 2021 · 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 ($1.3 billion at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 100 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
$1.3 billion
Deaths
0

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
Michigan1506$152 million
Texas5000$31 million
Illinois4901$12 million
Nebraska10500$11 million
Oklahoma4100$1.9 million
Colorado2000$665,000
Wisconsin2000$326,000
Missouri7213$180,000
New Mexico1400$145,000
Indiana900$143,000
American Samoa100$20,000
California200$10,000
South Dakota900$3,000
Kansas10401$2,000
Florida200$2,000
Iowa5400
Georgia1100
Idaho900
Montana600
Puerto Rico600
Louisiana500
Oregon200
Wyoming200
Nevada200
Minnesota100
Alabama100
Utah102
Ohio100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2021Tornadoes in 2021

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.