Created on: 2026-11-09
This report analyzes the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) storm database to determine which weather events are most harmful to population health and which have the greatest economic consequences.
The data was loaded and processed. We calculated the total health impact by summing fatalities and injuries. For economic impact, we applied the appropriate multipliers (B, M, K) to the property and crop damage columns to calculate the total damage in USD. The top 10 events for each category were then plotted.
The following plot shows the top 10 event types that cause the most fatalities and injuries combined.
The following plot shows the top 10 event types that cause the greatest economic damage (property and crop).
Tornadoes are the most harmful to population health. Floods and Hurricanes/Typhoons are the most economically destructive events.