Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters: What Does the Future Look Like?

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dc.contributor.author Shukla, Charchit
dc.contributor.author MacKenzie, Cameron
dc.contributor.author MacKenzie, Cameron
dc.contributor.department Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
dc.date 2021-03-16T02:08:13.000
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-30T08:44:55Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-30T08:44:55Z
dc.date.copyright Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2020
dc.date.issued 2020-01-01
dc.description.abstract <p>The average cost of natural disasters and damage to the U.S. economy has increased each year from approximately $35 billion in 1980 to $300 billion in 2017. This increase in the cost of natural disasters could be due to an increase in the strength and frequency of natural disasters and/or growth in the U.S. economy. We forecast the cost of natural disasters by fitting probability distributions to the historical cost of billion-dollar disasters. We model the cost of natural disasters based on all weather-related natural disasters that cost more than $1 billion since 1980 and based only on those natural disasters that cost more than $1 billion that occurred in the past 20 years. Using the data from 1980 to 2018, the model forecasts the annual expected cost to be $52 billion. However, if only the recent disaster data is used to the fit the model, we forecast the expected annual cost to be $93 billion.</p>
dc.description.comments <p>The proceeding is published as Shukla, Charchit, and Cameron A. MacKenzie. "Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters: What Does the Future Look Like?" In: L. Cromarty, R. Shirwaiker, P. Wang, eds., <em>IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2020</em>. Proceedings of a meeting held May 3-June 2, 2020. Posted with permission.</p>
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dc.subject.disciplines Public Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Risk Analysis
dc.subject.disciplines Systems Engineering
dc.subject.keywords Natural disasters
dc.subject.keywords economic impacts
dc.subject.keywords probabilistic forecast
dc.subject.keywords Monte Carlo simulation
dc.title Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters: What Does the Future Look Like?
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