Billion-dollar disasters

Hurricane Dennis

July 9 to 11, 2005 · Tropical Cyclone · $4.0 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $4.0 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($2.5 billion at the time) and 15 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 148 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

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The toll

Losses, 2024 dollars
$4.0 billion
Losses at the time
$2.5 billion
Deaths
15

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
Florida7920$1.6 billion
Alabama10403$127 million
Georgia19403$24 million
Mississippi2700$4.8 million
Louisiana1000$50,000
New York200$20,000
Virginia900$12,000
Nebraska300$10,000
Tennessee400$5,000
Maryland200$5,000
North Dakota2000
New Jersey1600
Pennsylvania900
Vermont700
South Carolina700
Wisconsin600
Colorado500
Delaware300
North Carolina300
Minnesota200
Montana200
Hawaii200
Puerto Rico220
District of Columbia100
South Dakota100

Episode by episode

More

Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2005The 2005 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 2005

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.