Billion-dollar disasters

Midwest/Southeast Tornadoes

April 6 to 8, 2006 · Severe Storm · $2.5 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.5 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.6 billion at the time) and 10 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
$2.5 billion
Losses at the time
$1.6 billion
Deaths
10

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
Tennessee15610138$94 million
Mississippi11001$22 million
Georgia9102$11 million
Alabama13802$2.4 million
Kentucky9604$2.3 million
West Virginia2803$1.7 million
Kansas73012$1.3 million
Virginia4701$361,000
Indiana13500$301,000
Nebraska4100$250,000
Louisiana4500$190,000
Missouri1300$143,000
Arkansas5900$130,000
Ohio6300$73,000
Oklahoma5900$68,000
Florida900$56,000
Iowa1600$46,000
South Carolina4903$45,000
South Dakota2100$25,000
Maryland200$20,000
Wyoming200$15,000
Puerto Rico800$12,000
Colorado300$8,000
California200$2,000
Minnesota1800
Illinois1700
North Carolina1500
Texas800
Idaho200
Pennsylvania200
American Samoa111

Episode by episode

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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.