Over the last 40 years, a blizzard in 1993 caused the most overall economic losses in the United States, clocking in at about five billion U.S. dollars. The next costliest event was a winter storm, blizzard, and flood that occured in 2019, which cost about 4.7 billion U.S. dollars.
Costliest winter events in the United States from 1980 to 2019, by overall economic losses
(in million U.S. dollars)
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Insurance Information Institute. (August 9, 2021). Costliest winter events in the United States from 1980 to 2019, by overall economic losses (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 10, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/216887/overall-economic-losses-due-to-costliest-us-winters/
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