Billion-dollar disasters

Colorado Hail Storms

June 8 to 9, 2004 · Severe Storm · $1.2 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.2 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($695 million at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 309 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
$1.2 billion
Losses at the time
$695 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

StateEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage filed
Colorado9602$148 million
Texas9707$10 million
Wisconsin500$3.0 million
Ohio3000$1.3 million
South Dakota2700$920,000
Oklahoma1800$512,000
New York5602$336,000
Nebraska6002$248,000
Virginia900$204,000
Florida2702$126,000
Vermont2000$123,000
Minnesota3200$108,000
Pennsylvania1100$107,000
Iowa2800$80,000
New Hampshire2100$73,000
Tennessee400$55,000
Missouri300$50,000
Illinois2600$42,000
Massachusetts710$30,000
Mississippi300$21,000
Louisiana100$20,000
Michigan3800$15,000
South Carolina511$10,000
Alabama200$9,000
North Carolina600$5,000
Kentucky200$2,000
Oregon100$1,000
Georgia300$500
North Dakota5700
Kansas1900
Montana1700
Wyoming500
Puerto Rico400
Idaho300
Washington200
New Jersey200
California100
Maine100
Connecticut100
New Mexico100
Maryland100
Delaware100

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.