The total costs of Hurricane Harvey amounted to 130 billion CPI-adjusted U.S. dollars, which makes it the most expensive natural disaster to occur in the United States in the 2010s. Hurricane Maria and Superstorm Sandy followed behind at 93.6 billion U.S. dollars and 73.5 billion CPI-adjusted U.S. dollars respectively.
Most expensive natural disasters in the United States from 2010 to 2019
(in billion CPI-adjusted U.S. dollars)
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