The Top 10 Costliest Disasters Since 1980

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Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, 2005, $125 billion

(Kevin Horan/Aurora for USN&WR)

The view of New Orleans from I-10 in the days following the hurricane.

Reinsurance company Munich Re, which compiles data from government reports or officials to rank natural disasters in terms of overall cost, estimates that Hurricane Katrina was the most expensive disaster from 1980 to present.

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