List of United States disasters by death toll

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List of United States disasters by death toll is a list of notable disasters which occurred in the United States or involved US citizens, in a definable incident.

Due to inflation, the damage estimates are not comparable. The year given is the year in which the currency's valuation was calculated to.

This list is not comprehensive in general, and epidemics are not yet included at all.

Year	Type	Fatalities	Damage (US$)	Article	Location	Comments
1900	Cyclone	6,000-12,000		Galveston Hurricane of 1900	Texas	Fatalities estimated
1906	Earthquake and Fire (urban conflagration)	3,000-6,000		1906 San Francisco Earthquake	California	Conflagration followed quake; fatalities estimated
1928	Cyclone	2,500-4,078	$800,000,000 (2005)	1928 Okeechobee Hurricane	Florida, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida	Fatalities estimated
1889	Accident - Dam burst	2,209		Johnstown Flood	Pennsylvania	Flooding caused by excessive rain, compounded by fire
2005	Cyclone	1,836	$84 Billion (2006 USD)	Hurricane Katrina	Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
1865	Accident - Shipwreck	1,700		Sultana (steamboat)	Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee	Steamboat sank due to boiler explosion; fatalities estimated
1980	Heat wave	1,250-10,000		1980 United States heat wave	Central and southern states	Fatalities estimated
1871	Fire (urban conflagration)	1,200-2,500		Peshtigo Fire	Peshtigo, Wisconsin	Fatalities estimated
1904	Accident - Shipwreck	1,021		General Slocum	East River near New York City	Steamship sank due to fire onboard
1893	Cyclone	1,000-2,000		1893 Sea Islands Hurricane	Georgia, South Carolina	Fatalities estimated
1995	Heat wave	739		Chicago Heat Wave of 1995	Chicago, Illinois
1925	Tornado	695-727	$1,650,000,000 (2005)	Tri-State Tornado	Missouri, Illinois and Indiana (Kentucky, Tennessee)	Lower number is for single 3-state tornado; higher number is for 5-state outbreak
1919	Cyclone	600		1919 Florida Keys Hurricane	Florida, Texas
1938	Cyclone	600		Great New England Hurricane
1935	Cyclone	423		Labor Day Hurricane of 1935	Florida
1950	Blizzard	353	$66,700,000 (1950)	Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950	Eastern states
1974	Tornado	315		Super Outbreak	Ontario, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and New York	148 tornadoes
1965	Tornado	271		Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak	Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana	78 tornadoes
1969	Cyclone	256		Hurricane Camille	Mississippi, Alabama and Virginia
1896	Tornado	255-400	$2,900,000,000 (1997)	St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado	Missouri
1913	Blizzard	250		Great Lakes Storm of 1913		Fatalities estimated
1888	Blizzard	400		Great Blizzard of 1888	Northeast	Fatalities estimated
1871	Fire (urban conflagration)	200-300		Great Chicago fire	Chicago, Illinois	Fatalities estimated; 125 bodies recovered
1903	Fire (building)	602		Iroquois Theater Fire	Chicago, Illinois
1942	Fire (building)	492		Cocoanut Grove fire		Nightclub
1888	Cold wave			1888 Northwest Cold Wave	Northwest
1998	Blizzard	30		North American ice storm of 1998	Canada and Northeast
1980	Volcano	57		1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens	Washington State
1931-1939	Drought			Dust Bowl	Great Plains	Compounded by unsustainable agricultural techniques
1971	Earthquake	65	$500,000,000	Sylmar earthquake	Greater Los Angeles, California area
1977	Blizzard	23	$56,250,000 (1977)	Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977	New York and Ontario (esp. Buffalo, New York)
1989	Cyclone		$7,000,000,000 (1989)	Hurricane Hugo		Damage figure is for U.S. only
1992	Cyclone	23	$25,000,000,000	Hurricane Andrew	Florida and Louisiana
1993	Blizzard	79-300	$6,600,000,00	1993 North American storm complex	East Coast of North and Central America
1994	Earthquake	57	$23,000,000,000	Northridge Earthquake	Greater Los Angeles area
1997	Flood	0	$2,000,000,000	1997 Red River Flood	North Dakota, Minnesota, Southern Manitoba
1999	Tornado	48	$1,500,000,000 (2005)	Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak	Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Tennessee	66 tornadoes
1999	Heat wave	271			Midwest and Northeast
2005	Tornado	25	$92,000,000	Evansville Tornado of November 2005	Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio	7 tornadoes
2004	Cyclone	10	$15,000,000,000	Hurricane Charley	Florida
2004	Cyclone	49	$9,000,000,000	Hurricane Frances	Florida
2004	Cyclone	124	$19,000,000,000 (2005)	Hurricane Ivan	Texas, Florida, East Coast
2004	Cyclone	120	$10,000,000,000 (2005)	Hurricane Rita	Gulf Coast, Florida
1754-1763	War			French and Indian War
1914-1918	War	15,000,000-66,000,000		World War I		Fatalities worldwide (higher figure includes Spanish Flu deaths). Approximately 116,000 Americans killed.
1939-1945	War	62,000,000		World War II		Fatalities worldwide including civilians (25,000,000 were military). Approximately 405,000 Americans killed.
1959-1975	War	1,900,000		Vietnam War		Worldwide fatalities approximate, includes civilians. U.S. fatalities were approximately 58,000.
1950-1953	War	2,300,000-2,600,000		Korean War		Approximately 36,000 Americans killed
1990-1991	War	25,400		Gulf War		378 American fatalities.
1775-1783	War	77,300		American Revolutionary War		Fatality estimate includes foreign troops and soldiers who died of disease
1763-1766	War	2,450		Pontiac's Rebellion
1812-1815	War	24,000		War of 1812		Fatality figure may include some wounded
1846-1848	War	38,000		Mexican-American War		Fatality figure may include some wounded
1861-1865	War	618,000		American Civil War
1995	Terrorism	168		Oklahoma City bombing	Oklaholma City, Oklaholma
1990	Fire (building)	87		Happy Land Fire	New York City
2001	Terrorism	2,992		September 11, 2001 attacks	New York City, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, U.S. airspace
1981	Accident - collapse	114		Hyatt Regency walkway collapse	Kansas City, Missouri
1910	Fire (rural)	86		Great Fire of 1910	Washington, Idaho, Montana
1894	Fire (rural)	400		Great Hinckley Fire	Hinckley, Minnesota and vicinity
1918	Fire (rural)	453	$7,300,000	1918 Cloquet Fire	Minnesota
1991	Fire (rural)	25	$1,500,000,000	1991 Oakland firestorm	Oakland, California and vicinity
1816	Volcano			Year Without a Summer		Volcanic dust caused crop failures and starvation
1913	Storm	250	$5,000,000 (1913)	Great Lakes Storm of 1913	Great Lakes area	Financial impact for lost vessels and cargo only
1938	Flood	115		Los Angeles Flood of 1938	Los Angeles, California
1995	Flood	6	$1,360,000,000	May 8th 1995 Louisiana Flood	New Orleans, Louisiana area
1946	Tsunami and Earthquake	165		Aleutian Island earthquake	Alaska and Hawaii
1964	Tsunami and Earthquake	115	$1,800,000,000 (2006)	Good Friday Earthquake	Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, British Columbia
1960	Tsunami	2,290-6,000	$3,500,000,000 (2005)	Great Chilean Earthquake	Hawaii, Alaska	Worldwide statistics; 61 were killed in Hilo, Hawaii, $500,000 in U.S. property damage
1936	Flood	69	$3,000,000,000 (2006)	Pittsburgh Flood 1936	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area
1996	Flood	8	$500,000,000	Willamette Valley Flood of 1996	Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California
1951	Flood	28	$7,000,000,000 (2005)	Great Flood of 1951	Kansas and Missouri
1993	Flood	50	$15,000,000,000	Great Flood of 1993	Midwest
1937	Flood	385	$500,000,000	Ohio River flood of 1937	Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois
1927	Flood	246	$400,000,000	Great Mississippi Flood of 1927	Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee
1915	Accident - Shipwreck	845		S.S. Eastland	Chicago, Illinois
1947	Accident - Explosion	581		Texas City Disaster	Texas City, Texas	TNT onboard ship
1944	Accident - Explosion	320		Port Chicago disaster	Port Chicago, California (San Francisco Bay Area)	WWII ammunition ignited
1937	Accident - Explosion	296-319	$13,000,000 (2003)	New London School explosion	New London, Texas	Gas leak
1944	Accident - Explosion	130	$7,000,000-$15,000,000	Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion	Cleveland, Ohio
1919	Accident - Explosion	21	$6,600,000,000 (2005)	Boston molasses disaster	Boston, Massachusetts	Damages are out-of-court settlements only; repairs took 133 man-months
1865	Accident - Explosion	300		Mobile magazine explosion	Mobile, Alabama	Civil War ammunition
1996	Accident - Aircraft	230		TWA Flight 800	Atlantic Ocean near Long Island, New York
1937	Accident - Aircraft	36		LZ 129 Hindenburg	Manchester, New Jersey	Hydrogen-filled zeppelin
1988	Accident - Automobile	27		Carrollton bus disaster	Carrollton, Kentucky
1960	Accident - Aircraft	134		1960 New York air disaster	New York City
1972	Accident - Dam burst	125		Buffalo Creek Flood	Logan County, West Virginia
1977	Accident - Aircraft	583		Tenerife disaster	Canary Islands, Spain	Pan Am jet from New York was involved
1979	Accident - Aircraft	273		American Airlines Flight 191	Chicago, Illinois
1988	Terrorism	270		Pan Am Flight 103	Lockerbie, Scotland
2001	Accident - Aircraft	265		American Airlines Flight 587	Queens, New York
1996	Accident - Aircraft	110		ValuJet Flight 592	Florida Everglades
1985	Accident - Aircraft	135		Delta Air Lines Flight 191	Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Texas
1989	Accident - Aircraft	111		United Airlines Flight 232	Sioux City, Iowa
2006	Accident - Aircraft	49		Comair Flight 5191	Lexington, Kentucky
1969	Accident - Aircraft	35		Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708	Lone Pine, California
1967	Accident - Aircraft	34		Mohawk Airlines Flight 40	Blossburg, Pennsylvania
1977	Accident - Dam failure	39		Kelly Barnes Dam
1928	Accident - Dam failure	600		St. Francis Dam	Santa Clarita, California (Greater Los Angeles area)
1976	Accident - Dam failure	0	$400,000,000	Teton Dam	Idaho
1910	Avalanche	96		Wellington avalanche	Wellington, Washington
1856	Accident - Railroad	59-67		The Great Train Wreck of 1856	Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
1918	Accident - Railroad	93		Malbone Street Wreck	Brooklyn, New York
1918	Accident - Railroad	86		Hammond Circus Train Wreck	Hammond, Indiana
1918	Accident - Railroad	101		Great train wreck of 1918	Nashville, Tennessee
1887	Accident - Railroad	81-85		Great Chatsworth Train Wreck	Chatsworth, Illinois
1993	Accident - Railroad	47		Big Bayou Canot train disaster	Alabama
1876	Accident - Railroad	92		Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster	Ashtabula, Ohio
1896	Accident - Railroad	50		1896 Atlantic City rail crash	New Jersey
1912	Accident - Shipwreck	1,490-1,522		RMS Titanic	Atlantic Ocean	Bound for New York City 111 - coal mine (Centralia Mine Disaster, Centralia, IL, March 25, 1947)
1907	Accident - Coal mine	362		Monongah Mining disaster	Monongah, West Virginia
1913	Accident - Coal mine	263			Dawson, New Mexico
1909	Accident - Coal mine	259		Cherry Mine Disaster	Cherry, Illinois
1937	Accident - Coal mine	257			Grundy, Virginia
1900	Accident - Coal mine	200		Scofield mine disaster	Scofield, Utah]]
1947	Accident - Coal mine	111		Centralia Mine Disaster	Centralia, Illinois
1881	Fire (rural)	282	$2,347,000	Thumb Fire	Michigan
1963	Accident - Aircraft	81		Pan Am Flight 214	Elkton, Maryland	Lightning strike
1860	Accident - Shipwreck	400		Lady Elgin (steamship)	Chicago, Illinois
1889	Fire (urban conflagration)	0		Great Seattle Fire
1914	Fire (urban conflagration)		$290,000,000 (2005)	Great Salem Fire of 1914
1776	Fire (urban conflagration)			Great Fire of New York (1776)	Manhattan, New York City
1835	Fire (urban conflagration)		$20,000,000 (1835)	Great Fire of New York
1901	Fire (urban conflagration)	7		Great Fire of 1901	Jacksonville, Florida
1872	Fire (urban conflagration)	20	$73,500,000 (1872)	Great Boston Fire of 1872	Boston, Massachusetts
1904	Fire (urban conflagration)	1		Great Baltimore Fire	Baltimore, Maryland
1917	Fire (urban conflagration)	1	$5,500,000 (1917)	Great Atlanta fire of 1917	Atlanta, Georgia
1989	Earthquake	69	$6 billion (1989)	Loma Prieta Earthquake	San Francisco Bay Area, California

[edit] See also

• List of natural disasters by death toll
• List of wars and disasters by death toll
• List of terrorist incidents in the United States
• List of epidemics
• Category:Disasters in the United States

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