$183B
2024 (latest)
BILLION-DOLLAR DISASTER COST
billion CPI-adjusted dollars · 1980–2024 · neither direction is "better" · computed from NOAA NCEI billion-dollar disaster individual event records
$46B
1980
$396B
high · 2017
$3B
low · 1984
+300%
since 1980
┊ dashed lines mark 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Computed from individual event records (name, dates, CPI-adjusted cost); annual count and annual cost, summed by event begin-year. Costs converted from millions to billions of dollars, CPI-adjusted as NOAA published them in the archived final edition (the file does not name the dollar base year); 1980–2024 only. Product retired in 2025; record ends in 2024. No successor data appended. Breaks: Product retired in 2025; record ends in 2024. No successor data appended.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/events-US-1980-2024.csv
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Energy-And-Environment
Data
| Year | Billion-dollar disaster cost | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $183B | +102% |
| 2023 | $90B | −52% |
| 2022 | $188B | +15% |
| 2021 | $164B | +36% |
| 2020 | $121B | +117% |
| 2019 | $56B | −52% |
| 2018 | $116B | −71% |
| 2017 | $396B | +547% |
| 2016 | $61B | +98% |
| 2015 | $31B | +21% |
| 2014 | $26B | −21% |
| 2013 | $32B | −80% |
| 2012 | $159B | +62% |
| 2011 | $98B | +385% |
| 2010 | $20B | +2% |
| 2009 | $20B | −79% |
| 2008 | $94B | +399% |
| 2007 | $19B | −25% |
| 2006 | $25B | −91% |
| 2005 | $269B | +191% |
| 2004 | $92B | +140% |
| 2003 | $38B | +41% |
| 2002 | $27B | +25% |
| 2001 | $22B | +40% |
| 2000 | $16B | −37% |
| 1999 | $25B | −36% |
| 1998 | $38B | +123% |
| 1997 | $17B | −26% |
| 1996 | $23B | −35% |
| 1995 | $36B | +114% |
| 1994 | $17B | −75% |
| 1993 | $66B | −18% |
| 1992 | $80B | +308% |
| 1991 | $20B | +34% |
| 1990 | $15B | −64% |
| 1989 | $40B | −26% |
| 1988 | $55B | +594% |
| 1986 | $8B | −65% |
| 1985 | $23B | +601% |
| 1984 | $3B | −88% |
| 1983 | $27B | +76% |
| 1982 | $15B | +336% |
| 1981 | $3B | −92% |
| 1980 | $46B | — |
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