Storm exposure and disaster-mitigation investment — the federal data behind property risk, by state.
Every figure is an official federal fact: storm events, property damage, and direct deaths from the NOAA Storm Events Database, joined with FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance obligated funding. Nothing is scored or ranked for you — these are the provenanced numbers, so you can see where being wrong about property risk is expensive.
| # | State | Storm events | Property damage | Direct deaths | FEMA mitigation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MO | 2,135 | $1.77B | 21 | $19.8M |
| 2 | WA | 191 | $544.6M | 1 | $53.6M |
| 3 | IL | 2,662 | $532.5M | 9 | $5.5M |
| 4 | TX | 4,755 | $488.5M | 153 | $212.3M |
| 5 | WI | 1,265 | $182.9M | 6 | $12.4M |
| 6 | OK | 889 | $87.6M | 13 | $12.7M |
| 7 | CA | 1,592 | $69.8M | 93 | $73.5M |
| 8 | NM | 804 | $62.1M | 5 | $5.0M |
| 9 | TN | 1,965 | $53.6M | 17 | $2.2M |
| 10 | NE | 1,428 | $53.1M | 3 | $8.9M |
| 11 | ID | 489 | $51.6M | 1 | $1.3M |
| 12 | NC | 1,360 | $47.0M | 13 | $64.0M |
| 13 | MS | 1,665 | $42.3M | 13 | $3.6M |
| 14 | MN | 1,427 | $40.7M | 2 | $4.3M |
| 15 | MT | 1,406 | $37.7M | 1 | $9.4M |
| 16 | AZ | 873 | $37.6M | 63 | $3.0M |
| 17 | UT | 390 | $37.4M | 5 | $186.3M |
| 18 | IN | 1,162 | $34.8M | 5 | $3.4M |
| 19 | NY | 1,121 | $32.7M | 8 | $62.9M |
| 20 | ND | 824 | $32.6M | 3 | $15.1M |
| 21 | KY | 1,525 | $32.3M | 32 | $4.4M |
| 22 | VA | 2,242 | $24.8M | 7 | $39.6M |
| 23 | WV | 2,066 | $23.5M | 13 | $648K |
| 24 | AL | 2,223 | $21.8M | 11 | $2.6M |
| 25 | AK | 197 | $21.7M | 1 | $8.3M |
| 26 | FL | 822 | $20.8M | 18 | $31.3M |
| 27 | KS | 1,467 | $19.5M | 0 | $5.7M |
| 28 | MI | 485 | $17.9M | 1 | $19.5M |
| 29 | AR | 1,324 | $16.6M | 1 | $6.6M |
| 30 | PA | 1,934 | $12.0M | 8 | $52.7M |
| 31 | MD | 644 | $9.6M | 1 | $15.2M |
| 32 | LA | 1,186 | $8.4M | 2 | $331.8M |
| 33 | OH | 1,416 | $7.3M | 2 | $81.9M |
| 34 | AS | 84 | $5.6M | 3 | $3.4M |
| 35 | GA | 1,266 | $3.9M | 3 | $5.5M |
| 36 | NV | 434 | $3.1M | 36 | $4.8M |
| 37 | VT | 268 | $2.0M | 0 | $3.6M |
| 38 | CO | 949 | $1.9M | 3 | $4.5M |
| 39 | HI | 122 | $1.8M | 2 | $5.3M |
| 40 | PR | 438 | $1.8M | 16 | $2.8M |
| 41 | DC | 31 | $1.7M | 0 | $33.5M |
| 42 | WY | 422 | $1.7M | 2 | $5.2M |
| 43 | IA | 1,254 | $1.4M | 1 | $18.8M |
| 44 | OR | 210 | $1.3M | 6 | $9.9M |
| 45 | SC | 438 | $1.2M | 3 | $48.1M |
| 46 | SD | 1,478 | $1.2M | 3 | $7.2M |
| 47 | NJ | 340 | $822K | 9 | $202.8M |
| 48 | MA | 266 | $505K | 0 | $21.6M |
| 49 | CT | 123 | $222K | 0 | $25.9M |
| 50 | DE | 49 | $123K | 1 | $1.3M |
| 51 | ME | 121 | $86K | 1 | $5.1M |
| 52 | NH | 146 | $67K | 1 | $1.9M |
| 53 | RI | 25 | $62K | 1 | $3.0M |
| 54 | GU | 26 | $57K | 2 | $3.2M |
| 55 | VI | 4 | $9K | 0 | $764K |
| 56 | MP | 0 | — | 0 | $2.1M |