Billion-dollar disasters

Hurricane Ivan

September 12 to 21, 2004 · Tropical Cyclone · $34 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $34 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($21 billion at the time) and 57 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 400 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
$34 billion
Losses at the time
$21 billion
Deaths
57

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
Florida601932$4.1 billion
Alabama10105$2.6 billion
Pennsylvania141493$366 million
Puerto Rico1541$170 million
West Virginia2926$118 million
Virginia67012$69 million
New York5600$55 million
Georgia18728$48 million
Ohio2710$43 million
New Jersey1500$32 million
Minnesota1910$30 million
North Carolina2300$22 million
Louisiana2400$16 million
Mississippi3310$12 million
Kentucky6310$7.0 million
U.S. Virgin Islands200$6.2 million
Iowa3800$2.4 million
Arizona1100$2.0 million
Maryland1400$2.0 million
Tennessee3900$662,000
Indiana300$400,000
Texas1000$285,000
South Carolina1401$193,000
California700$60,000
New Mexico300$40,000
Missouri2000$20,000
Massachusetts500$10,000
Illinois300$10,000
New Hampshire100$10,000
Colorado400
Connecticut300
Wyoming200
Washington100
South Dakota100
Delaware100
Vermont100
Guam100
Utah100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2004The 2004 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 2004

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.