Billion-dollar disasters

Spring Freeze

April 4 to 10, 2007 · Freeze · $3.2 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the freeze disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $3.2 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($2.0 billion at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 123 most significant freeze 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
$3.2 billion
Losses at the time
$2.0 billion
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
Georgia12300$629 million
Missouri16000$166 million
North Carolina6000$58 million
Kansas7801$41 million
Kentucky16300$38 million
South Carolina2500$36 million
Illinois16900$23 million
Ohio3100$17 million
Indiana4400$8.3 million
Virginia17210$7.6 million
Nebraska2400$1.3 million
Texas4800$365,000
Arkansas11900$300,000
Wisconsin5010$190,000
Vermont1400$110,000
New Hampshire200$60,000
Michigan2700$6,000
Alabama8200
Maryland6500
West Virginia5700
Tennessee4600
Iowa2800
Minnesota2700
South Dakota2600
Mississippi2200
Colorado1500
New Jersey900
Pennsylvania500
District of Columbia500
Delaware300
Utah200
Florida100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2007Tornadoes in 2007

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.