27
2024 (latest)
BILLION-DOLLAR DISASTERS
events · 1980–2024 · neither direction is "better" · computed from NOAA NCEI billion-dollar disaster individual event records
3
1980
27
high · 2023
1
low · 1988
+800%
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 disasters | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27 | +0% |
| 2023 | 27 | +42% |
| 2022 | 19 | −5% |
| 2021 | 20 | −9% |
| 2020 | 22 | +57% |
| 2019 | 14 | −13% |
| 2018 | 16 | −16% |
| 2017 | 19 | +27% |
| 2016 | 15 | +36% |
| 2015 | 11 | +10% |
| 2014 | 10 | +0% |
| 2013 | 10 | −9% |
| 2012 | 11 | −39% |
| 2011 | 18 | +157% |
| 2010 | 7 | −22% |
| 2009 | 9 | −25% |
| 2008 | 12 | +140% |
| 2007 | 5 | −38% |
| 2006 | 8 | +33% |
| 2005 | 6 | +0% |
| 2004 | 6 | −14% |
| 2003 | 7 | +17% |
| 2002 | 6 | +100% |
| 2001 | 3 | −40% |
| 2000 | 5 | +0% |
| 1999 | 5 | −50% |
| 1998 | 10 | +150% |
| 1997 | 4 | −20% |
| 1996 | 5 | −29% |
| 1995 | 7 | +17% |
| 1994 | 6 | +20% |
| 1993 | 5 | −29% |
| 1992 | 7 | +75% |
| 1991 | 4 | +0% |
| 1990 | 4 | −33% |
| 1989 | 6 | +500% |
| 1988 | 1 | −67% |
| 1986 | 3 | −57% |
| 1985 | 7 | +250% |
| 1984 | 2 | −50% |
| 1983 | 4 | −20% |
| 1982 | 5 | +150% |
| 1981 | 2 | −33% |
| 1980 | 3 | — |
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