Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005
Bureau of Meteorology · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · +4 more institutions
Abstract
After more than two decades of relatively little Atlantic hurricane activity, the past decade saw heightened hurricane activity and more than $150 billion in damage in 2004 and 2005. This paper normalizes mainland U.S. hurricane damage from 1900–2005 to 2005 values using two methodologies. A normalization provides an estimate of the damage that would occur if storms from the past made landfall under another year’s societal conditions. Our methods use changes in inflation and wealth at the national level and changes in population and housing units at the coastal county level. Across both normalization methods, there is no remaining trend of increasing absolute damage in the data set, which follows the lack of…
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Authors
6- RARoger A. PielkeCorresponding
Bureau of Meteorology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Space, Center For Policy Research, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, University College London
- JGJoel Gratz
Bureau of Meteorology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Space, Center For Policy Research, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, University College London
- CWChristopher W. Landsea
Bureau of Meteorology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Space, Center For Policy Research, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, University College London
- DCDouglas Collins
Bureau of Meteorology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Space, Center For Policy Research, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, University College London
- MAMark A. Saunders
Bureau of Meteorology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Space, Center For Policy Research, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, University College London
Topics & keywords
- Landfall
- Storm
- Storm surge
- Population
- Tropical cyclone
- Climatology
- Environmental science
- Meteorology