Hurricane Nicole
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.1 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.0 billion at the time) and 5 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 19 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
- $1.1 billion
- Losses at the time
- $1.0 billion
- Deaths
- 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 54 | 0 | 0 | $58 million |
| Virginia | 9 | 0 | 0 | $76,000 |
| Georgia | 29 | 0 | 0 | $66,000 |
| North Carolina | 19 | 0 | 0 | $18,000 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1 | 1 | $5,000 |
| Arizona | 3 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Ohio | 5 | 0 | 0 | $200 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Carolina | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Episode by episode
- Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in Florida, November 8 to 10, 2022Nicole formed as a subtropical storm about 600 miles east of the Bahamas on November 7th, then moved northwest. Nicole gained tropical characteristics and became a tropical storm on November 8th as it turned west and west-southwest.
- Flash Flooding and High Wind in Arizona, November 8 to 9, 2022A strong Pacific storm system brought isolated high winds followed by isolated flooding from heavy rain.
- Tropical Storm in Florida, November 9 to 11, 2022Hurricane Nicole approached the SE FL Atlantic Coast and made landfall as a Category 1 near Vero Beach during the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, November 10th.
- Tropical Depression in Georgia, November 10, 2022During the early hours of November 10th, Hurricane Nicole made landfall along the Atlantic coastline of Florida and quickly weakened into a Tropical Depression as it moved northwestward towards central Georgia.
- Tropical Storm and Tropical Depression in Florida, November 10, 2022Hurricane Nicole initially formed as a subtropical storm in the western Atlantic on November 7 between Bermuda and the Bahamas before becoming fully tropical on November 8.
- Flooding and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, November 10 to 12, 2022After making landfall along the Florida Panhandle early on November 11th, the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole progressed north toward far western North Carolina and Virginia.
- Tropical Storm in Georgia, November 10, 2022Hurricane Nicole approached the SE FL Atlantic Coast and made landfall as a Category 1 near Vero Beach during the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, November 10th.
- Storm Surge and Tropical Depression in South Carolina, November 10 to 11, 2022Nicole first developed as a Subtropical Storm about 550 miles east of the northwest Bahamas in the morning of Monday, November 7th.
- Storm Surge in Georgia, November 10, 2022Nicole first developed as a Subtropical Storm about 550 miles east of the northwest Bahamas in the morning of Monday, November 7th.
- Tropical Storm in Georgia, November 10, 2022Tropical Storm Nicole moved across the Florida Peninsula and turned northwestward, moving across the Florida Big Bend into southern Georgia. Wind and rain impacts were relatively minimal.
- Tropical Storm in Florida, November 10, 2022Tropical Storm Nicole moved across the Florida Peninsula and turned northwestward, moving across the Florida Big Bend into southern Georgia. Wind and rain impacts were relatively minimal.
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, November 10, 2022This episode was created to add one fatality from the previous episode with the same title from November 3-5.
- Flood and Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, November 11 to 12, 2022The remnants of Hurricane Nicole, in combination with a Great Lakes cold front, lead to heavy precipitation totals across the region. Rainfall totals of 1.5 to 3.5 inches, with localized higher totals, were common across the region.
- Flood and Heavy Rain in Ohio, November 11, 2022The remnants of Hurricane Nicole, in combination with a Great Lakes cold front, lead to heavy precipitation totals across the region. Rainfall totals of 1.5 to 3.5 inches, with localized higher totals, were common across the region.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in North Carolina, November 11 to 12, 2022Unseasonably high moisture interacted with a stationary, weakening frontal boundary to produce heavy rainfall across western North Carolina throughout the 11th.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Virginia, November 11, 2022A combination of Tropical Depression Nicole and the approach of a cold front caused scattered severe thunderstorms which produced damaging winds and two tornadoes across portions of central and south central Virginia.
- Flash Flood in Virginia, November 11, 2022A combination of Tropical Depression Nicole and the approach of a cold front caused scattered thunderstorms which produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding across portions of central Virginia.
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, November 11, 2022The remnants of Tropical Depression Nicole moved up through southern West Virginia on the evening of November 11th.
- Flood in Ohio, November 12, 2022The remnants of Tropical Depression Nicole moved up through the Central Appalachians on the evening of November 11th.
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.