Billion-dollar disasters

Colorado Hail Storm

July 11, 1990 · 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 ($820 million at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 52 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
$820 million
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

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1990Tornadoes in 1990

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.