Flood Type |
Map no. |
Date |
Area or stream with flooding |
Reported deaths |
Approximate cost (uninflated) |
Regional flood |
1 |
Mar.-Apr. 1913 |
Ohio, statewide |
467 |
$143M |
Excessive regional rain. |
2 |
Apr.-May 1927 |
Mississippi River from Missouri to Louisiana |
unknown |
$230M |
Record discharge downstream from Cairo, Illinois. |
3 |
Mar. 1936 |
New England |
150+ |
$300M |
Excessive rainfall on snow. |
4 |
July 1951 |
Kansas and Neosho River Basins in Kansas |
15 |
$800M |
Excessive regional rain. |
5 |
Dec. 1964 - Jan. 1965 |
Pacific Northwest |
47 |
$430M |
Excessive rainfall on snow. |
Flash flood |
21 |
June 14, 1903 |
Willow Creek in Oregon |
225 |
unknown |
City of Heppner, Oregon, destroyed. |
22 |
June 9-10, 1972 |
Rapid City, South Dakota |
237 |
$160M |
15 inches of rain in 5 hours. |
23 |
July 31, 1976 |
Big Thompson and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado |
144 |
$39M |
Flash flood in canyon after excessive rainfall. |
Ice-jam flood |
25 |
May 1992 |
Yukon River Alaska |
0 |
unknown |
100-year flood on Yukon River. |
Storm-surge flood |
26 |
Sept. 1990 |
Galveston, Texas |
6,000+ |
unknown |
Hurricane. |
27 |
Sept. 1938 |
Northeast United States |
494 |
$360M |
Hurricane. |
Dam-failure flood |
29 |
Feb. 2, 1972 |
Buffalo Creek in West Virginia |
125 |
$60M |
Dam failure after excessive rainfall. |
30 |
June 5, 1976 |
Teton River in Idaho |
11 |
$400M |
Earthen dam breached. |
Mudflow flood |
32 |
May 18, 1980 |
Toutle and lower Cowlitz Rivers in Washington |
60 |
unknown |
Result of eruption of Mt. St. Helens. |