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

# Flood — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **15 direct deaths**, **5 injuries**, and **$92,357,950 property damage** (+ $45,000 crop) from Flood, across **46 states** (2,261 events). That is 2.4% 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 flood took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CALIFORNIA | 6 | $5,598,450 |
| KENTUCKY | 4 | $5,074,050 |
| OKLAHOMA | 2 | $325,000 |
| INDIANA | 2 | $79,000 |
| MISSOURI | 1 | $250,000 |
| MONTANA | 0 | $35,100,000 |
| ALASKA | 0 | $19,080,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA | 0 | $10,108,550 |
| KANSAS | 0 | $4,892,000 |
| TENNESSEE | 0 | $4,350,000 |

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/flood.jsonld`