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Flood Damage in the United States, 1926-2003
A Reanalysis of National Weather Service Estimates
Table 2-1. Published sources of flood damage estimates from the NWS and U.S. Weather Bureau (WB).
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Publication
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Years of Flood Damage Included
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Spatial Aggregation
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Time Periods Summarized
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Information Provided
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Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau (WB)
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1918-1933
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River basin
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Water year (Oct - Sep)
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Describes large flood events. Occasionally gives flood damage estimates for individual large events.
(First national flood damage total reported in 1934.)
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Monthly Weather Review (WB, 1934-1949)
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1933-1947
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River basin
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Calendar year
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Annual summaries describe damage in major floods. Tables give estimated damage for all major river drainages.
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Climatological Data, National Summary (WB, NOAA, 1950-1977)
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1948-1977
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River basin
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Calendar year
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Monthly summaries describe flood damage and deaths in "notable" flood events. Annual summaries through 1975 give tables of damage in major river drainages.
General summaries for 1972 and 1975 also give damage by state for each calendar year since 1955 and national flood damage and deaths by month and year since 1925.
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Storm Data (WB, NOAA)
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1959-present
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County or multi-county area
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Monthly reports on storm events sometimes give brief descriptions of damage. Estimated damage to property and crops checked off on logarithmic scale until 1994, reported in thousands of dollars since 1995.
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Annual Flood Damage Report to Congress (USACE)
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1983-present
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State
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Federal fiscal year (Oct - Sep)
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Annual reports describe major flood events and provide table of flood damages suffered, by state. Recent reports give 10-year summary tables of flood damage and deaths, by state.
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Note: This table is also available in PDF Format.
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A report of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Weather Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs, pursuant to NOAA Award No. NA96GP0451 through a cooperative agreement. In partnership between the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
A report of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Weather Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs, pursuant to NOAA Award No. NA96GP0451 through a cooperative agreement. In partnership between the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado.
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