Billion-dollar disasters

Midwest Tornadoes

April 13 to 16, 2006 · Severe Storm · $3.8 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $3.8 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($2.4 billion at the time) and 27 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 300 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
$3.8 billion
Losses at the time
$2.4 billion
Deaths
27

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
Wisconsin10400$161 million
Iowa228134$15 million
Illinois21900$5.8 million
Nebraska4300$5.2 million
Indiana14800$1.3 million
Kansas5900$400,000
Missouri4200$192,000
California1000$140,000
Michigan300$120,000
New York2500$116,000
Ohio6900$107,000
North Carolina5400$100,000
Virginia4000$35,000
Kentucky2600$29,000
Tennessee300$22,000
Pennsylvania1900$20,000
Oregon500$10,000
West Virginia3000$5,000
South Carolina1100$2,000
Delaware200$2,000
Arkansas1500
Montana800
South Dakota700
Washington500
Maryland400
North Dakota400
Massachusetts100
Oklahoma100
Rhode Island100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2006Tornadoes in 2006

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.