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.

All CPI-Adjusted Damage costs are 2022 values, calculated from: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/. CPI-Adjusted Damage costs are unavailable before the year 1913.

Note: The High-Impact Events Database is currently being updated with more features. Stay tuned.

Filter between two years
State County City Date Event Type Deaths CPI Adjusted Unadjusted Summary Links
Utah Juab, Sanpete, Utah September 06, 2018 Wildfire $5,470,940.00 $4,700,000.00
Colorado Teller, El Paso Colorado Springs August 06, 2018 Hail $201,377,000.00 $173,000,000.00
Colorado Costilla, Huerfano Fort Garland, La Veta June 27, 2018 Wildfire $40,741,000.00 $35,000,000.00
Colorado Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Weld, Morgan Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Broomfield, Northglenn, Brighton, Fort Morgan June 18, 2018 Hail $2,400,000,000.00
Colorado El Paso Colorado Springs, Fountain June 13, 2018 Hail $196,721,000.00 $169,000,000.00
Colorado Montezuma, La Plata Dolores, Durango June 01, 2018 Wildfire $44,815,100.00 $38,500,000.00
Colorado, Utah January 01, 2018 Drought
Wyoming Natrona, Converse, Albany, Carbon, Laramie, Platte May 17, 2017 Winter Storm
Colorado Denver, Jefferson Denver, Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Golden May 08, 2017 Hail $3,900,000,000.00 $2,500,000,000.00
Wyoming Platte, Goshen, Albany, Carbon, Laramie Wheatland, Torrington February 22, 2017 Winter Storm
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