List of weather disasters of 2016 with a loss of more than one billion US dollars
This list of weather disasters from 2016 with a loss of more than one billion US dollars names 30 natural disasters for which the international insurance consultancy Aon Benfield has determined a loss of more than one billion US dollars and for which the weather was the cause of the damage. Of these 30 natural events, nine are severe weather events such as hail , tornado and storm (excluding tropical cyclones), six are floods after extensive rainfall and six are the consequences of tropical cyclones. There are also two onset of winter and five droughts. According to these calculations, the total economic damage of all natural disasters in 2016 amounts to 210 billion US dollars, which is 21% above the average of the last sixteen years.
Fourteen of these weather disasters affected the United States and seven that of the People's Republic of China . Two events occurred in Europe.
The American meteorologist Jeff Masters named in his blog - after the fact that 2016 was the world's warmest year in measurement history - the smog events in Delhi at the beginning of November (The Great Smog of Delhi) and in some areas of northern China in mid-December as the worst weather-related damage . Estimates of their consequences are pending.
| rank | event | area | Period | Damage amount in billion USD |
Number of victims |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Floods | Yangtze River Basin , People's Republic of China | May 1–1. August 2016 | 28.0 | 475 |
| 2 | Hurricane Matthew | Caribbean, Bahamas, United States | September 28–10. October 2016 | 15.5 | 603+ |
| 3 | Floods | Louisiana, United States | 9-16 August 2016 | 10-15 | 13 |
| 4th | drought | People's Republic of China | June 1–31. August 2016 | 6.0 | 0 |
| 5 | Floods | Germany, France, Austria, Poland | May 26th – 6th June 2016 | 5.5 | 17th |
| 6th | drought | India | June 1–30. June 2016 | 5.0 | 0 |
| 7th | Floods | Northeast of the People's Republic of China | 16.-24. July 2016 | 4.7 | 289 |
| 8th | Forest fires | Fort McMurray, Canada | May 2–1. June 2016 | 4.5 | 0 |
| 9 | storm | Great Plains, Southeastern United States | 10-13 April 2016 | 4.3 | 1 |
| 10 | drought | West Coast and Southeastern United States, New England | January 1 to December 31 December 2016 | 3.5 | 0 |
| 11 | drought | Thailand | January 1–30. June 2016 | 3.3 | 0 |
| 12 | storm | Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, Midwestern, and Southeastern United States | 22-25 March 2016 | 2.5 | 0 |
| 13 | Typhoon Meranti | People's Republic of China, Republic of Taiwan, Philippines | 13-16 September 2016 | 2.5 | 44 |
| 14th | Floods | Texas, United States | 15-19 April 2016 | 2.0 | 9 |
| 15th | Winter weather | East asia | 20.-26. January 2016 | 2.0 | 116 |
| 16 | storm | Great Plains, Midwestern United States | April 29–3. May 2016 | 1.8 | 6th |
| 17th | Cyclone Roanu | Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, People's Republic of China | 14.-21. May 2016 | 1.8 | 135 |
| 18th | storm | Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, United States | 28/29 July 2016 | 1.6 | 0 |
| 19th | drought | Zimbabwe | June 1–10. August 2016 | 1.6 | 0 |
| 20th | Floods and storms | Great Plains, Midwest, New England, Southeastern United States | 4th - 12th March 2016 | 1.5 | 6th |
| 21st | Typhoon Nepartak | Philippines, Republic of China, People's Republic of China | 8-12 July 2016 | 1.4 | 111 |
| 22nd | storm | Great Plains, Southeastern United States | 17./18. March 2016 | 1.4 | 0 |
| 23 | Cyclone Winston | Fiji | 16.-22. February 2016 | 1.4 | 44 |
| 24 | Floods | Argentina and Uruguay | 4-10 April 2016 | 1.3 | 0 |
| 25th | storm | Great Plains, Midwestern United States | 21.-28. May 2016 | 1.3 | 1 |
| 26th | storm | Great Plains, Midwestern, Southeastern United States, New England | 22-25 February 2016 | 1.2 | 10 |
| 27 | storm | Netherlands | 26./24. June 2016 | 1.1 | 0 |
| 28 | storm | Great Plains, Midwest, Mississippi Valley, United States | 7-10 May 2016 | 1.1 | 2 |
| 29 | Winter weather | United States East Coast | 21.-24. January 2016 | 1.0 | 58 |
| 30th | Typhoon Chaba | South Korea, Japan | 5th / 6th October 2016 | 1.0 | 10 |
Remarks
- ↑ The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also state the forest fires in the United States with an aggregate damage amount of two billion US dollars and 21 deaths.
- ↑ The particulate matter values exceeded the WMO limit values by 40 times each; the total annual impact of air pollution around the world is estimated to be in the region of 5 million deaths and $ 5 trillion. According to Jeff Masters: Top Ten Weather Events of 2016: # 1 is No Surprise; # 2 Will surprise you. In: Weather Underground. wunderground.com, January 5, 2017.
- ↑ According to official information; some sources give at least 1659 victims.
- ↑ The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has calculated a lower damage amount for this weather disaster. Instead, NOAA has calculated a total damage amount of one billion US dollars for a flood event in West Virginia from June 22 to 24, 2016, for which Aon Benfield has determined a lower damage amount.
supporting documents
- 2016 Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report. (PDF) Aon Benfield, January 17, 2017, accessed January 20, 2017 .
- Jeff Masters: A Swarm of 30 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Socked the Planet in 2016. Weather Underground, January 17, 2017, accessed January 20, 2017 .