Billion-dollar disasters

Northeast Flooding

June 25 to 28, 2006 · Flooding · $2.4 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the flooding disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.4 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.5 billion at the time) and 20 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 278 most significant flooding 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
$1.5 billion
Deaths
20

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
New York7141$986 million
Pennsylvania12080$530 million
Wisconsin1200$502 million
New Jersey1920$32 million
Virginia8211$16 million
Maryland4251$11 million
District of Columbia100$10 million
Delaware600$1.0 million
North Carolina3200$671,000
Massachusetts500$175,000
Ohio100$150,000
Kansas1300$125,000
West Virginia1100$100,000
South Carolina700$75,000
Georgia1300$62,000
Vermont500$55,000
Connecticut200$55,000
Michigan100$35,000
Kentucky200$20,000
Illinois900$8,000
Tennessee100$1,000
Colorado400
Florida300
Puerto Rico200
Nebraska100
Texas100
Indiana100
Arizona100
California100

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.