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

# Drought — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **0 direct deaths**, **0 injuries**, and **$37,133,250 property damage** (+ $2,370,000 crop) from Drought, across **37 states** (2,473 events). That is 0.0% 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 drought took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MISSOURI | 0 | $37,125,000 |
| GUAM | 0 | $8,250 |
| LOUISIANA | 0 | — |
| NEW MEXICO | 0 | — |
| FLORIDA | 0 | — |
| TEXAS | 0 | — |
| GEORGIA | 0 | — |
| ARIZONA | 0 | — |
| MINNESOTA | 0 | — |
| NORTH CAROLINA | 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/drought.jsonld`