Despite Fewer Natural Disasters in 2015, Damaging Events Still Significant

A downward trend in U.S. natural hazard events in 2015 resulted in decreased damage and loss totals for the year, according to the latest CoreLogic Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis report.

The annual report noted that despite the reduction in frequency, there were still record-setting events within the individual hazard categories that caused significant damage. The report reviews annual hazard activity in the U.S. including events for wildfire, flooding, hurricanes, wind, hail, tornadoes, earthquakes and sinkholes. Highlights from the analysis include:

Wildfire
Flood

At $2.86 billion, total flood loss in 2015 was equivalent to that of 2014, but still well below the 30-year average of $7.96 billion.

Atlantic Hurricane
Wind
Hail
Tornado
Earthquake
Sinkhole

NHR Sinkholes Table Sinkhole activity was low in 2015 with 2,206 new sinkhole events recorded across the U.S.

Source: CoreLogic