Billion-dollar disasters

Midwest/Mid-Atlantic Severe Weather

June 6 to 12, 2008 · Severe Storm · $2.4 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.4 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.6 billion at the time) and 18 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 400 most significant severe storm 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
$2.4 billion
Losses at the time
$1.6 billion
Deaths
18

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
Oklahoma15602$759 million
Wisconsin27219$681 million
Indiana19736$287 million
Kansas50835$99 million
Iowa576753$87 million
Minnesota15635$42 million
Michigan26173$28 million
Illinois20807$16 million
Nebraska15703$7.3 million
South Dakota12400$4.0 million
Georgia9400$3.0 million
New York17720$1.9 million
Ohio11812$1.4 million
Missouri12600$1.2 million
Pennsylvania10113$1.1 million
Arkansas4810$949,000
Kentucky7500$885,000
Vermont4500$745,000
North Dakota1900$695,000
Maryland7100$531,000
Tennessee7600$505,000
Texas10900$467,000
Massachusetts3000$364,000
Mississippi1900$353,000
New Jersey5322$338,000
Florida9004$335,000
Virginia8901$248,000
Maine3600$200,000
Connecticut3814$117,000
North Carolina8100$89,000
Alabama5301$56,000
New Hampshire1601$20,000
New Mexico800$15,000
West Virginia4000$12,000
District of Columbia200$6,000
Colorado1600$5,000
South Carolina5100
Montana1401
Washington700
Wyoming400
Louisiana304
Puerto Rico200

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2008Tornadoes in 2008

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.