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Weather related fatalities

Select (US) Annual Weather Related Deaths

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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

This data was tabulated from data from the National Climatic Data Center.

This table represents a 6 year period and only a select type of recorded weather events. The data was tabulated from the
NCDC website 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. This table does not provide a comprehensive total of all weather related events. Also, this is not necessarily a weather event severity comparison, but is more of an indicator of frequency of fatal occurrences for some events. However, it should be noted that the unexpected leader of fatalities comes from the Temperature Extremes category. That category includes heat waves as well as cold extremes.