High-Impact Weather and Climate Events
High-impact events cause the majority of societal costs related to weather and climate. They provoke societal responses that can either enhance or detract from long-term adaptation to climate risk. In 2015, WWA began a new research focus on extremes that is designed to place high-impact events in the context of historical climate variability and projected climate change, assess how the risk of these events varies over time and space, and examine how high-impact events interact with place-based vulnerability.
The first activities in this new research theme have been to build a database of 160+ historical high-impact weather and climate events in the three-state region, and to generate a complementary set of regional event maps showing how risk varies seasonally across the region for different types of weather and climate events.
Note: The High-Impact Events Database is currently being updated with more features. Stay tuned.
State | County | City | Date | Event Type | Deaths | CPI-Adjusted Damage | Unadjusted Damage | Summary | Links | |||
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Colorado | Pueblo | Pueblo | May 07, 2007 | Dam Failure, Flood | ||||||||
Colorado | Prowers, Kiowa | Holly | March 28, 2007 | Tornado | 2 | $4,659,204 | $4,010,000 | |||||
Colorado | December 20, 2006 | Winter Storm | ||||||||||
Colorado | La Plata | October 06, 2006 | Dam Failure, Flood | |||||||||
Wyoming | Crook | Carlile | July 14, 2006 | Wildfire | ||||||||
Wyoming | Natrona | July 14, 2006 | Wildfire | |||||||||
Utah | Wayne | Hanksville | January 01, 2006 | Flood | ||||||||
Wyoming | Campbell | Wright | August 12, 2005 | Tornado | 2 | |||||||
Utah | Kane, Washington | January 08, 2005 | Flood | 1 | $277,509,056 | $225,000,000 | ||||||
Wyoming | Park | July 18, 2004 | Landslide |