Weather-related fatalities in the United States

Weather-related fatalities in the United States may be caused by extreme temperatures, such as abnormal heat or cold, flooding, lightning, tornado, hurricane, wind, rip currents, and others.

The National Weather Service compiles statistics on weather-related fatalities and publishes reports every year.

[2] In 2016, flooding was the number-one cause of weather-related fatalities, but over a 30-year period, on average, extreme heat is the deadliest form of weather.

The data was tabulated by running searches on the specified weather events recorded with at least 1 fatality.

For example, in the US, 21 people died in a cold wave in January 2014, which also caused property damage valued at US$2.5 billion[6]

The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [ 4 ]