Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1900 - 2005.
Pielke, Jr., R. A., and C. W. Landsea, 1998:
Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1925 - 95.
Not exact matches
Economic
damages of tropical storms and
hurricanes in the US, as above, but
normalized to take into account changes in population and wealth.
When Pielke et al., 2008 «
normalized» the reported
damages for the 1926 Great Miami
Hurricane to account for the increases in population, numbers of housing units and average wealth per person, they calculated that it would probably have cost about $ 150 billion
damage if it struck in 2005.
As noted previously on this blog, when
hurricane damages are adjusted («
normalized») to account for changes in population, per capita income, and the consumer price index, there is no long - term trend such as might indicate an increase in
hurricane frequency or power related to global climate change.
Hurricane landfalls have not increased in the US in frequency, intensity or
normalized damage since at least 1900.