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

# Sneakerwave — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **4 direct deaths**, **1 injuries**, and **no reported property damage** from Sneakerwave, across **2 states** (15 events). That is 0.6% 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 sneakerwave took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CALIFORNIA | 3 | — |
| OREGON | 1 | — |

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/sneakerwave.jsonld`