EM-DAT: United States Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Losses

Aggregated annual statistics for natural hazard events in the United States are maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The records track disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by specific disaster subtypes, with updates current through 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the longitudinal trend of 'total number of deaths' from specific disaster subtypes in the USA
• Comparing 'economic losses (adjusted)' across different years to assess climate-related financial risk
• Correlating 'total number of people affected' with disaster frequency to evaluate national resilience

Strengths

• Includes both original and inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Categorized by specific disaster subtype for granular hazard analysis
• Utilizes HXL tags for integration with other humanitarian data sources

Limitations

• Aggregated at the national level, which precludes state or county-level spatial analysis
• Focuses exclusively on natural hazards, omitting technological or man-made disaster data

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT international disaster database.

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

United States of America