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

# Flash Flood — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **206 direct deaths**, **14 injuries**, and **$1,297,150,550 property damage** (+ $785,000 crop) from Flash Flood, across **52 states** (5,393 events). That is 32.8% 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 flash flood took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TEXAS | 144 | $427,962,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA | 12 | $11,081,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA | 8 | $40,615,000 |
| ARIZONA | 7 | $31,540,000 |
| KENTUCKY | 7 | $702,000 |
| OKLAHOMA | 5 | $1,485,000 |
| PUERTO RICO | 3 | $655,000 |
| VIRGINIA | 2 | $16,995,500 |
| TENNESSEE | 2 | $15,068,000 |
| CALIFORNIA | 2 | $9,979,000 |

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/flash-flood.jsonld`