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Billion Dollar Climate and Weather Diasaters, 1980-2006
The U.S. has sustained seventy weather-related disasters during the 1980-2006 period in which overall damages and costs reached or exceeded $1 billion at the time of the event. This report does not include any events that had unadjusted damages/losses less than $1 billion dollars and then subsequently may have reached $1 billion after applying the (Gross National Product) GNP inflation/wealth index. Sixty-one of these disasters occurred since 1988 with total unadjusted damages/costs of approximately $430 billion. Seven events occurred in 1998 alone--the most for any year in the summary period, though other years have recorded higher damage totals. Events are listed beginning with the most recent.
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| Disaster Type | Number of Events | Percent Frequency | Normalized Damages (Billions of Dollars) | Percent Damage |
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| Severe Weather | 8 | 11.5% | 14 | 2.4% |
| Fires | 7 | 10.0% | 14 | 2.4% |
| Freezes | 2 | 2.9% | 6 | 1.1% |
| Blizzards | 2 | 2.9% | 9 | 1.6% |
| Ice Storms | 2 | 2.9% | 5 | -0.9% |
| Noreaster | 1 | 1.4% | 2 | -0.3% |
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