Capiz and Aklan were the areas that sustained the most residential damage.
Although only inconsequential residential damage occurred at Woopen Creek and Yungaburra, damage at Tully was more serious, with considerable flooding, destruction to six houses, damage to a police station, and a localized blackout.
Mass flooding, power outages, oil spills and residential damages were caused by strong winds and storm surge.
Tropical Storm Allison destroyed 2,744 homes, leaving 30,000 homeless with residential damages totaling to $1.76 billion (2001 USD, $2.29 billion 2012 USD).
The most significant insurance costs were in the areas of residential property damage with 31.8% of total payments, motor vehicle damage with 28.6% and for properties which service the commercial and industrial sectors at 27.5%.
Annually, whitetail deer cause $250 million in residential landscaping damage; deer-vehicle collisions injure 29,000 people and kill 1.5 million deer; and 13,000 Americans contract Lyme disease.
"I didn't think money was that important, otherwise I could have raised more," Mr. Megna, 41, said in an interview Thursday, still sounding like a man more comfortable talking about a residential flood damage claim than a political victory.
The National Fire Protection Association's most recent report, covering 1993 to 1997, said that on average there are 6,150 lightning-related fires a year resulting in 11 deaths and $129.7 million in residential property damage.
The last step was to implement the probabilistic model into the 2012 building foot print data and to model the spatio-temporal patterns of residential building damage.
This paper addresses the wind-induced tearing and blow-off of asphalt roofing shingles, which are the most frequently observed forms of residential building damage in hurricanes.
The study focuses on the economic quantification of the residential building damage caused by an earthquake, and adopts the housing market value provided by OMI as a reliable economic indicator, instead of the cost of construction, which is commonly used, but is difficult to quantify.
