Billion-dollar disasters

Midwest Severe Weather

June 12 to 16, 2017 · Severe Storm · $1.9 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.9 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.5 billion at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 240 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
$1.9 billion
Losses at the time
$1.5 billion
Deaths
0

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
Texas12500$210 million
Nebraska23004$28 million
Wisconsin25810$7.9 million
Minnesota20204$3.9 million
Mississippi9000$1.9 million
North Dakota2600$1.4 million
Ohio5800$890,000
Iowa20801$656,000
Wyoming6701$617,000
North Carolina5001$594,000
Virginia6300$554,000
Illinois8800$415,000
Kansas38605$350,000
Michigan4100$323,000
Georgia4200$310,000
Florida2601$271,000
New York2800$203,000
Oklahoma6500$103,000
Pennsylvania5500$101,000
Kentucky1100$100,000
Missouri10403$91,000
Indiana3101$42,000
Massachusetts2000$41,000
West Virginia1200$37,000
South Dakota19000$35,000
Alabama6902$33,000
Tennessee600$16,000
Arkansas1600$14,000
South Carolina3700$13,000
Idaho900$3,000
Colorado2500
Montana1300
Maine700
Puerto Rico500
New Jersey200
Nevada100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2017Tornadoes in 2017

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.