Billion-dollar disasters

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June 7 to 8, 2022 · Severe Storm · $2.0 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.0 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.9 billion at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 121 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
$2.0 billion
Losses at the time
$1.9 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
Nebraska16100$119 million
Ohio7000$2.0 million
Maryland3300$1.2 million
Indiana1700$331,000
Florida2800$233,000
West Virginia7200$142,000
Pennsylvania1800$93,000
Kentucky1100$78,000
Tennessee1700$77,000
Missouri3802$75,000
North Carolina1200$71,000
New Mexico2300$50,000
Colorado9000$45,000
Virginia2501$44,000
Mississippi700$41,000
Alabama3000$40,000
Louisiana300$20,000
Oklahoma9000$19,000
Texas6100$8,000
South Carolina2500$8,000
Georgia1805$6,000
Arkansas2400$2,000
Kansas6700
South Dakota2500
Iowa2400
Illinois1000
New Jersey700
Wyoming400

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.