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HARVEY MARIA
IRMA
52 $127.5B
Roughly
of RAINFALL
15 Upwards of
of RAINFALL
inches
inches
ECONOMIC DAMAGE
23 $91.8B
Nearly
of RAINFALLinches
ECONOMIC DAMAGE
$15B ECONOMIC DAMAGE
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was catastrophic, with hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria making landfall within a matter of weeks. All three storms were billion dollar disaster events. Worse,
approximately 80 percent or more of flood victims in recent events such as these storms were uninsured.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/events/US/2000-2018
2017