Billion-dollar disasters

Southeast Severe Weather

March 24 to 27, 2005 · Severe Storm · $1.4 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.4 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($865 million at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 261 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
$1.4 billion
Losses at the time
$865 million
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
Texas5000$100 million
Florida6704$3.5 million
Mississippi5002$2.6 million
Georgia7700$2.4 million
Alabama9600$944,000
Kentucky1000$250,000
Louisiana1300$110,000
Tennessee2700$109,000
California500$78,000
New York700$55,000
Virginia800$10,000
Oklahoma4600
North Carolina2400
Arkansas1600
West Virginia600
Maryland500
Kansas400
South Carolina200
Colorado100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2005Tornadoes in 2005

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.