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Category: Natural disasters in Nevada. 5 languages. ... 1997 Nevada floods; 1999 Las Vegas flood; F. July–August 2022 United States floods; G. Great Flood of 1862; J.
Natural disasters in Georgia (U.S. state) (3 C, 11 P) H. ... Natural disasters in Nevada (2 C, 11 P) Natural disasters in New Hampshire (3 C, 16 P)
Natural disasters in Nevada (2 C, 11 P) T. Transportation disasters in Nevada (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Disasters in Nevada" The following 5 pages are in this ...
Tied with Hurricane Harvey as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. 1,173 1943 HMT Rohna [10] Military strike – bombing Mediterranean Sea: Luftwaffe glide bomb hit troopship causing the largest loss of U.S. soldiers (1,050) at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 1,167 1865 Sultana: Accident – shipwreck Marion, Arkansas
The Nevada Department of Transportation closed travel lanes on Nevada State Route 447. [13] Debris closed all but one lane on U.S. Route 93 northbound. [14] The National Weather Service office in Las Vegas recorded 0.88 inches (22 mm) of rainfall, which was the wettest day in September in 11 years. [15]
In 2012 the U.S. declared 99 natural disasters, a record number for the past few years, up from 81 in 2010. As a result, homeowners insurance rates rose in badly impacted areas -- sometimes ...
Costliest natural disaster in the United States prior to Hurricane Katrina. 1988 Wildfire: 2 $240 million Yellowstone fires of 1988: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 793,880 acres (36% of the park) was burned in the fires started by lightning. 1985 Hurricane: 9 $1.3 billion Hurricane Elena: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas ...
In Nevada, the floods began on January 1, 1997, [10] and continued over the next two days as water made its way through several counties. [11] In Sparks , the Truckee River reached flood stage at 2:00 a.m. on January 1, followed by Reno at 10:30 a.m. [ 1 ] The river's flood stage was 12 feet, and it crested at 14.7 feet on January 2, breaking ...