Hurricane Fiona
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.7 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($2.5 billion at the time) and 25 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 8 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
- $2.7 billion
- Losses at the time
- $2.5 billion
- Deaths
- 25
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
| State | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 35 | 2 | 0 | $276,000 |
| New York | 12 | 0 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Florida | 2 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Illinois | 39 | 0 | 0 | |
| California | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Puerto Rico, September 17 to 21, 2022Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Sunday the 18th around 3:20 PM AST near Punta Toc n in southwestern Puerto Rico. Strong, gusty winds accompanied much of the stronger convection embedded within the hurricane.
- Flood in Florida, September 17, 2022Thunderstorms produce minor flooding near Desoto Lakes in Manatee County.
- Flooding and Strong Wind in California, September 18 to 19, 2022An upper level jet diving down the coast of California, combined with plentiful lower level moisture advected from the Pacific set the stage for an early season rain storm and strong winds around much of the Bay Area and Central Coast.
- Flood in Florida, September 18, 2022A persistent upper-level trough lingered over the FL peninsula while the low-level trough axis was inland across NE FL.
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, September 18, 2022After several days of much drier conditions, a more traditional monsoon pattern returned as an area of high pressure developed near the Oklahoma and Texas border and a potent upper-level low pressure system developed off the coast of northern California.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, September 18 to 19, 2022A cold front interacting with a warm and humid airmass triggered several clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms across parts of central Illinois during the evening of September 18th into the early morning of September 19th.
- Flash Flood and Hail in New York, September 19, 2022A cluster of showers and thunderstorms resulted in downed trees and powerlines, a couple of hail reports, and a flood report over eastern New York during the afternoon hours on September 19, 2022.
- Tornado in New York, September 19, 2022Warm, moist air created an unstable environment in the afternoon across Central New York. A sweeping cold front moved through the region during the evening, kicking off thunderstorms.
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2022The 2022 hurricane seasonTornadoes 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.