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United States: Costa Concordia disaster: $2 [241] $2.7 33 Maritime disaster 2012 Italy: 2013 Moore tornado: $2 [242] $2.6 26 Tornado 2013 United States Typhoon In-fa: $2 [243] $2.2 6 Tropical cyclone 2021 East Asia (, , }, others) 2023 Jishishan earthquake: $2 [244] $2 151 Earthquake 2023 China: 2024 Persian Gulf floods: $2 [245] $2 46 Flood 2024
Second-deadliest disaster in United States history. Deadliest drug epidemic in United States history. 700,000 [3] 1981 – present HIV/AIDS in the United States: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated. Third-deadliest disaster in United States history. 675,000 [4] 1918 – 1920 1918 influenza pandemic: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated.
Damage figure for U.S. only. At least 111 total deaths, with 37 in the continental U.S. and 12 in the U.S. possession of Puerto Rico. 1988 Heat wave and Drought: 5,000 – 10,000 $120 billion (2014 USD) 1988-89 North American drought: Widespread; 45% of the nation affected Costliest natural disaster in the United States prior to Hurricane ...
"The U.S. has sustained 403 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2024). The total cost of these 403 ...
The damage is expected to far exceed the $16 billion in economic losses from Maui's wildfires two years ago. Weather now accounts for almost all of the $320 billion in annual natural catastrophe ...
The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia's watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. The National ...
Emergency in Water Transportation of the United States: Declared a national emergency arising from insufficient tonage to carry the products of the farms, forests, mines and manufacturing industries of the United States, and admonishes all citizens to abide by the regulations in the Shipping Act. Ended Franklin Roosevelt: March 6, 1933 [9]
The U.S. has had a record 25 weather disasters so far in 2023, each of which caused at least $1 billion in damage — and a new NASA analysis suggests the year’s extreme weather events may be ...