File name: billionDollarEvents_720.jpg Original Resolution: 720 × 360 File Size: 57 KB (MIME Type: image/jpeg) Date Published: March 13, 2013 Download file View image caption Number of times between 1980 and August 2011 that a U.S. state has been involved in a weather or climate disaster whose region-wide damage totals were at least one billion dollars at the time they occurred.