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Subject: E13) What have been the costliest tropical cyclones in
the United States?
Contributed by Chris Landsea
This table lists the 30 costliest
tropical cyclones to strike the U.S. mainland 1900-2005 (Pielke et
al. 2006). No monetary estimates are available before 1900 and figures
are not adjusted for inflation. The 2005 hurricane season had the
first, third, sixth, and sixteenth most-costly systems to strike the
United States. The second table
reorders the first list and adds several other hurricanes after adjusting to
2005 dollars. Hawaiian, Puerto Rican and Virgin Island tropical
cyclones are listed as addenda to these tables.
The third table also lists
the thirty costliest hurricanes 1900-2005 assuming that a hurricane
having the same track, size and intensity as noted in the historical
record would strike the area with today's population totals and
property-at-risk (Pielke et al 2006).
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