Hurricane Andrew
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $60 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($27 billion at the time) and 61 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 13 most significant tropical cyclone 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
The toll
- Losses, 2024 dollars
- $60 billion
- Losses at the time
- $27 billion
- Deaths
- 61
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
- Tornadoes in Texas, August 25, 1992
- Tornado in Louisiana, August 25, 1992
- Tornadoes in Louisiana, August 26, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 26, 1992
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, August 26, 1992
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, August 27, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, August 27, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Ohio, August 27, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 27, 1992
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 27, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 28, 1992
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Delaware, August 28, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 28, 1992
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1992The 1992 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 1992
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.