Flood Damage in the United States: Table 3-1

Flood Damage in the United States, 1926-2003
A Reanalysis of National Weather Service Estimates

Table 3-1. Estimated U.S. Flood Damage, by Fiscal Year (Oct-Sep).

Fiscal Year	Damage (Millions of Current Dollars)	Implicit Price Deflator*	Damage (Millions of 1995 Dollars)
1926	9.243	—	—
1927	315.187	—	—
1928	88.155	—	—
1929	61.700	0.12854	480
1930	25.832	0.12385	209
1931	2.070	0.11091	19
1932	10.365	0.09796	106
1933	27.366	0.09541	287
1934	18.903	0.10071	188
1935	123.327	0.10265	1,201
1936	287.137	0.10377	2,767
1937	433.339	0.10815	4,007
1938	108.970	0.10499	1,038
1939	13.861	0.10387	133
1940	40.067	0.10530	381
1941	26.092	0.11244	232
1942	91.548	0.12120	755
1943	220.553	0.12773	1,727
1944	99.789	0.13058	764
1945	159.251	0.13425	1,186
1946	68.930	0.15056	458
1947	281.321	0.16667	1,688
1948	213.716	0.17615	1,213
1949	108.586	0.17594	617
1950	129.903	0.17788	730
1951	1,076.687	0.19072	5,645
1952	254.190	0.19368	1,312
1953	121.752	0.19623	620
1954	74.170	0.19817	374
1955	784.672	0.20163	3,892
1956	305.573	0.20846	1,466
1957	352.145	0.21539	1,635
1958	224.939	0.22059	1,020
1959	121.281	0.22304	544
1960	111.168	0.22620	491
1961	147.680	0.22875	646
1962	86.574	0.23180	373
1963	179.496	0.23445	766
1964	194.512	0.23792	818
1965	1,221.903	0.24241	5,041
1966	116.645	0.24934	468
1967	291.823	0.25698	1,136
1968	443.251	0.26809	1,653
1969	889.135	0.28124	3,161
1970	173.803	0.29623	587
1971	323.427	0.31111	1,040
1972	4,442.992	0.32436	13,698
1973	1,805.284	0.34251	5,271
1974	692.832	0.37329	1,856
1975	1,348.834	0.40805	3,306
1976	1,054.790	0.43119	2,446
1977	988.350	0.45892	2,154
1978	1,028.970	0.49164	2,093
1979	3,626.030	0.53262	6,808
1980	—	0.58145	—
1981	—	0.63578	—
1982	—	0.67533	—
1983	3,693.572	0.70214	5,260
1984	3,540.770	0.72824	4,862
1985	379.303	0.75117	505
1986	5,939.994	0.76769	7,737
1987	1,442.349	0.79083	1,824
1988	214.297	0.81764	262
1989	1,080.814	0.84883	1,273
1990	1,636.366	0.88186	1,856
1991	1,698.765	0.91397	1,859
1992	672.635	0.93619	718
1993	16,364.710	0.95872	17,069
1994	1,120.149	0.97870	1,145
1995	5,110.714	1.00000	5,111
1996	6,121.753	1.01937	6,005
1997	8,934.923	1.03925	8,597
1998	2,465.048	1.05199	2,343
1999	5,450.375	1.06677	5,109
2000	1,336.744	1.09113	1,225

* Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2001.
— Data unavailable, see text for discussion.

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