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

# High Surf — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **15 direct deaths**, **13 injuries**, and **$573,500 property damage** (+ $4,000 crop) from High Surf, across **9 states** (53 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 high surf took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CALIFORNIA | 6 | — |
| ILLINOIS | 3 | — |
| AMERICAN SAMOA | 2 | $30,000 |
| PUERTO RICO | 2 | $3,500 |
| HAWAII | 1 | $530,000 |
| MINNESOTA | 1 | — |
| MAINE | 0 | $10,000 |
| OREGON | 0 | — |
| INDIANA | 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/high-surf.jsonld`