Billion-dollar disasters

Tropical Storm Allison

June 5 to 17, 2001 · Tropical Cyclone · $15 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $15 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($8.5 billion at the time) and 43 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 314 most significant tropical cyclone 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
$15 billion
Losses at the time
$8.5 billion
Deaths
43

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
Texas174220$5.2 billion
Minnesota198012$91 million
Pennsylvania710$35 million
Louisiana6610$30 million
South Dakota6900$25 million
Wisconsin12903$21 million
Florida1421$21 million
Iowa20207$21 million
Nebraska8202$14 million
Colorado3700$9.0 million
Georgia5600$2.3 million
Mississippi3902$1.6 million
Illinois7200$525,000
Kentucky2001$456,000
North Carolina3400$440,000
Massachusetts400$425,000
Ohio5802$380,000
West Virginia2100$279,000
Kansas17000$222,000
Missouri5610$200,000
Arkansas400$175,000
Maryland1200$160,000
Michigan3000$150,000
Rhode Island200$150,000
Connecticut1100$112,000
Virginia4501$44,000
Oklahoma3300$42,000
Alabama600$42,000
Tennessee2000$35,000
Indiana2500$23,000
Puerto Rico200$15,000
South Carolina2700
New Jersey1400
Wyoming1202
New York1000
Hawaii400
North Dakota201
Maine200
Oregon100
Washington100
District of Columbia100
Delaware100
New Hampshire100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2001The 2001 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 2001

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.