FLOOD06680

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Flood Damage in the United States, 1926-2000
• Date: 6/1/2000
• Prepared By: NOAA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

Table 2,1. Published sources of flood damage estimates from the NWS and U.S. Weather Bureau (WB).

Years of
Flood
Damage Spatial Time Periods
Publication Iucluded Aggregation Summarized Infonnatiou Provided
Report of the 1918- River basin Waler year Describes large flood events, Occasionally gives
Chiefofthe 1933 (Oct-Sep) flood damage estimates for individual large events.
Weather (First national flood damage total reported in
Bureau (WE) 1934,)
Monthly 1933- River basin Calendar year Annual summaries describe damage in major
Weather 1947 floods.
Review (WE, Tables give estimated damage for all major river
1934-1949) drainages.
Climatological 1948- River basin Calendar year Monthly summaries describe flood damage and
Data, National 1977 deaths in "uotable" flood events.
Summary Annual summaries through 1975 give tables of
(WE, NOAA, damage in major river drainages.
1950-1977) 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.
Storm Data 1959- County or - Monthly reports on storm events sometimes give
(WB, NOAA) present multi,county brief descriptions of damage. Estimated damage to
area property and crops checked off on logarithmic
scale until 1994, reported in thousands of dollars
since 1995.
Annual Flood 1983- State Federal fiscal Annual reports describe major flood events and
Damage present year (Oct- provide table of flood damages suffered, by state,
Report to Sep) Recent reports give lO-year summary tables of
Congress flood damage and deaths, by state.
(USACE)

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