---
title: Avalanche — U.S. toll in 2025 (NOAA)
peril: Avalanche
year: 2025
source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database
sourceId: src:noaa:ncei:storm-events-database
---

# Avalanche — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **10 direct deaths**, **6 injuries**, and **$22,500 property damage** from Avalanche, across **10 states** (29 events). That is 1.6% of all recorded 2025 hazard deaths.

**How to read this:** one **volatile year** (a major event in another year changes it sharply) — NOT "the deadliest hazard in history." Deaths are NOAA **"direct" deaths only**; indirect deaths are excluded. Damage is NOAA's reported estimate, not insured loss. This is the recorded past toll, **not a forecast of your risk** — for that, see the per-state/county risk profiles and the National Weather Service.

## Where avalanche took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| UTAH | 3 | $10,000 |
| COLORADO | 3 | — |
| WYOMING | 2 | — |
| WASHINGTON | 1 | $9,000 |
| CALIFORNIA | 1 | — |
| VIRGINIA | 0 | $3,500 |
| NEVADA | 0 | — |
| IDAHO | 0 | — |
| MONTANA | 0 | — |
| ALASKA | 0 | — |

RECORDED NOAA Storm Events figures. Not history, not your risk, not a forecast. Your exposure: `/property/states/<state>` and `/property/counties/<fips>`. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/

Structured data: `/property/hazards/avalanche.jsonld`