Economic cost of major floods in the U.S. 1980-2022

Published by
Erick Burgueño Salas,
Apr 17, 2023
Causing economic losses of over 40 billion U.S. dollars (CPI adjusted), the Great Flood of 1993 was one of the most devastating in U.S. history. The Midwest is frequently flooded. Flooding is expected to worsen over the next century. Between 2016 and 2022, there were 12 billion-dollar flooding events in the U.S.

Major flooding events in the United States from 1980 to 2022, by economic cost (in billion U.S. dollars)

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Release date

December 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

1980 to 2022

Supplementary notes

Values are CPI-adjusted estimates.

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