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Hurricanes are the costliest natural disasters in the United States. Understanding how both hurricane frequencies and intensities vary from year to year as well as how,this is manifested in changes in damages,that occur is a topic of great interest to meteorologists, public and private decision makers, and the general public alike. Previous research into long-term trends in hurricane-caused damage,along the U.S. coast has suggested that damage,has been quickly increasing within the last two decades, even after considering inflation. However, to best capture the year-to-year variability in tropical cyclone damage, consideration must also be given toward two additional factors: coastal population changes and changes in wealth. Both population and wealth have increased dramat- ically over the last several decades and act to enhance,the recent hurricane damages,preferentially over those occurring previously. More appropriate trends in the United States hurricane damages,can be calculated when a normalization of the damages,are done to take into account inflation and changes,in coastal population and wealth. With this normalization, the trend of increasing damage amounts in recent decades disappears. Instead, sub- stantial multidecadal variations in normalized damages,are observed: the 1970s and 1980s actually incurred less damages,than in the preceding few decades. Only during the early 1990s does damage,approach,the high level of impact seen back in the 1940s through the 1960s, showing that what has been observed recently is not unprecedented. Over the long term, the average annual impact of damages in the continental United States is about $4.8 billion (1995 $), substantially more than previous estimates. Of these damages, over 83% are accounted for by the intense hurricanes (Saffir‐Simpson categories 3, 4, and 5), yet these make up only 21% of the U.S.- landfalling tropical cyclones.

Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1925–95