2007-08-22T06:58:51-05:00 2010-01-23T04:39:01-05:00 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. 27278 Billion Dollar Climate and Weather Diasaters, 1980-2006 TDohElM950V7GrUoRu1O2Q== National Climactic Data Center http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/billionz.html 1008417 2007-08-21T23:59:03-05:00