Billion-dollar disasters

Northeast Winter Storm

February 9 to 11, 2010 · Winter Storm · $1.2 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the winter storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.2 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($817 million at the time) and 3 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 129 most significant winter 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
$1.2 billion
Losses at the time
$817 million
Deaths
3

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
Texas10019$48 million
Pennsylvania6220$21 million
Mississippi5500$18 million
Delaware824$7.8 million
New Jersey3121$5.0 million
Ohio5000$2.1 million
Louisiana4700$1.8 million
Maryland4400$1.0 million
North Carolina9100$186,000
South Carolina9100$146,000
Virginia9201$135,000
Massachusetts500$75,000
Iowa2800$70,000
Georgia13916$35,000
Kentucky10710
Alabama8321
Illinois5301
Indiana5111
Arkansas4600
Tennessee4601
Oklahoma4100
Michigan3600
West Virginia2900
Wisconsin2210
Missouri1500
New York1400
Kansas900
Nebraska900
Florida900
Alaska600
Colorado600
Wyoming500
South Dakota300
Connecticut300
Rhode Island300
Minnesota200
District of Columbia200
California100
New Mexico100
Idaho100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2010Tornadoes in 2010

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.