Billion-dollar disasters

Hurricane Ida

August 29 to September 1, 2021 · Tropical Cyclone · $85 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $85 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($74 billion at the time) and 96 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 102 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
$85 billion
Losses at the time
$74 billion
Deaths
96

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
Louisiana61300$12 billion
New York100180$473 million
Pennsylvania11452$360 million
New Jersey84299$238 million
Mississippi8137$16 million
Connecticut3210$6.1 million
South Dakota4700$3.9 million
Utah1400$3.8 million
Delaware100$3.6 million
Virginia6012$2.6 million
North Dakota2300$2.3 million
California1520$2.2 million
Minnesota10300$1.6 million
Maryland8614$1.3 million
Massachusetts2100$666,000
Wisconsin1700$461,000
Arizona2700$193,000
Alabama2003$160,000
West Virginia3900$153,000
Texas400$100,000
Kentucky1000$75,000
Rhode Island200$54,000
Ohio1000$30,000
Missouri100$20,000
Florida900$2,000
Indiana700$2,000
Arkansas100$1,000
Nevada100$1,000
Nebraska2900
Tennessee800
Iowa400
Illinois400
District of Columbia200
Kansas200
New Mexico100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2021The 2021 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 2021

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.