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

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Table 6.1. Comparison of Damage Estimates by State, 1955-1978 and 1983-1999. States are ordered by
increasing median damage. Missing estimates are treated as zero; all estimates are in millions of 1995
dollars.

Median
Damage Maximum Years with Years with Years with
~tate :<egion (all years) Damage* no estimate O<estd.O est> 100.
Rhode Island '1ew England O.OC 143. 33 5 I
pelaware O.OC 7. 32 7 C
~assachusetts '1ew England O.OC 774 25 5 2
lNew Hampshire '1ew England O.OC 56. 2" 6 C
~awaii O.OC 44. 2" 2 C
Connecticut '1ew England O.OC 1881. 21 6 2
!IT ermont iNew England O.OC 19, 20 9 1
~yoming iArid West 0.05 53. 17 14 0
Maine iNew England O.OE 77. 20 0
New Jersey O.OE 749. 18 5 8
Alaska (29 yr) 0.0' 383. 14 , 1
Maryland &DC 0.14 681. 15 1, I
Nevada iArid West 0.16 616. 13 1, I
Michigan 0.21 528. 17 11 ,
N. Dakota iN. Central 0.41 3280. l' 9 ~
S. Dakota iN. Central 0.51 796. 1C 13 ~
Colorado !Arid West 0.57 1866. 11 1C ~
S. Carolina 0.66 40. 18 C
New Mexico iArid West 0.73 34. H f C
Utah iArid West 0.84 712 1~ 0
Montana lAnd West 1.04 229. 1C lC I
daho 1.21 1507 \ lC 1
Wisconsin 1.61 943 11 8 ~
Georgia ~outheast 1.86 307. 5 7 3
Virginia 1.91 1042. \ 9 6
Arizona Arid West 2.27 306. 7 S ~
Minnesota 2.4{ 1006. ~ 12 7

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