Weather-related fatalities in the United States

Select (US) annual weather-related deaths
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Floods 118 136 68 38 49 49
Lightning strikes 42 44 46 51 44 51
Tornadoes 68 130 94 43 40 55
Temperature extremes 123 182 509 170 170 178
Hurricanes 1 9 17 0 24 53
Snow/Ice 89 76 66 57 33 33
Source: National Climatic Data Center[1]

Weather-related fatalities in the United States may be caused by extreme temperatures, such as abnormal heat or cold, flooding, lightning, tornado, hurricane, wind, rip currents, and others. The National Weather Service compiles statistics on weather-related fatalities and publishes reports every year.[2] In 2016, flooding was the number-one cause of weather-related fatalities, but over a 30-year period, on average, extreme heat is the deadliest form of weather.[3]

The table at right represents a 6-year period and only a select type of recorded weather events. The data was tabulated by running searches on the specified weather events recorded with at least 1 fatality. The yearly timeframes were selected to cover January 1 to December 31 of each year for each event type. The table does not provide a comprehensive total of all weather-related events. It is not necessarily a weather event severity comparison, but is more of an indicator of frequency of fatal occurrences for some events. The leading cause of fatalities is in temperature extremes category, which includes heat waves as well as cold extremes.

The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s.[4]

Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years. Overall, a total of more than 9,000 Americans have died from heat-related causes since 1979, according to death certificates.[5]

Cold weather is deadly too. For example, in the US, 21 people died in a cold wave in January 2014, which also caused property damage valued at US$2.5 billion[6]

References

  1. ^ NCDC. "NCDC website". NOAA. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Office of Services; National Climatic Data Center (May 11, 2017). "77-Year List of Severe Weather Fatalities" (PDF). National Weather Service. NOAA. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  3. ^ Office of Services; National Climatic Data Center (May 11, 2017). "Weather fatalities 2016". National Weather Service. NOAA. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  4. ^ Howard, Jeffrey T.; Androne, Nicole; Alcover, Karl C.; Santos-Lozada, Alexis R. (26 August 2024). "Trends of Heat-Related Deaths in the US, 1999-2023". The Journal of the American Medical Association. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.16386.
  5. ^ "Climate Change Indicators: Heat-Related Deaths". EPA. 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
  6. ^ Cop21. The Human Cost of Weather-Related Disasters 1995–2015 (PDF) (Report). United Nations. Retrieved July 3, 2017.{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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