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The Cost of Disaster events

Natural disasters in New Zealand cost the insurance industry millions of dollars in claims.

The table below lists natural disasters which have occurred in New Zealand since 1968, including storms, floods, tornadoes and snowstorms and the costs to the insurance industry arising from these events.

Claims history (Updated November 2009)

YearSort descending order.

Event

Date

Original $m.

Adjstd. 31/12/07 $m. Sort ascending order.

2010

Wellington Thunderstorm

12 March

Provisional - 1.0

2010

Flooding North & South Islands

24-27 May

Provisional - 4.5

2010

Flooding – Northland/Coromandel/Eastern BOP

1 June

Provisional - 9.0

2009

Bay of Plenty Hail Storm

11 May

2.3

2.3

2009

Kaitaia Tornado

4 July

0.0075

0.0075

2009

North Island Storms

11/12 July

1.7

1.7

2009

Fiordland Earthquake

15 July

1.5

1.5

2009

Taranaki Tornado

21 July

0.5

0.5

2008

North Island Storms

26-27-Jul

26.70

26.70

2008

Nationwide Storms

30-Jul - 1-Aug

46.30

46.30

2008

Canterbury hail storm

17-Nov

11.20

11.20

2008

Hastings Earthquake

25-Aug

0.23

0.23

2008

Flooding Nth Canterbury and Marlborough [prelim.]

26-Aug

0.80

0.80

2008

Cambridge Tornado

17-Oct

1.03

1.03

2007

Storm event - Far North

29-Mar

12.50

12.75

2007

Flooding - Nelson & New Plymouth

23-May

1.10

1.12

2007

Tornado events

4 - 5-Jul

8.30

8.38

2007

Frost claims - Otago & Canterbury

7 - 9-Jul

7.00

7.07

2007

Storm event - Far North / Auckland / Coromandel

10 -12-Jul

60.50

61.00

2007

Flooding Hawkes Bay

17-Jul

1.10

1.11

2007

High Winds Event, Central North and Lower South Islands

23-24-Oct

4.80

4.82

2007

Gisborne earthquake

20 Dec

30.50

30.50

2006

Flooding - Oamaru / Dunedin

26-Apr

1.80

1.87

2006

Storms North & South Islands

12-Jun

42.50

43.91

2006

Storm/Flood events - Wellington, Manawatu, Wairarapa

5-7-Jul

2.70

2.78

2006

Windstorm damage - Mid to Upper North Island

9-Nov

3.40

3.48

2005

Flooding - Wellington Region

6-Jan

2.50

2.71

2005

Rain Storm - Dunedin

7-Feb

5.00

5.42

2005

Greymouth Tornado

10-Mar

9.20

9.95

2005

Coastal erosion - Haumoana

H.B.

0.00

0.03

2005

Storm damage Bay of Plenty

25-Mar

0.90

0.97

2005

Flooding - Lower Nth Island

31-Mar

0.60

0.65

2005

Christchurch Hailstorm

23 &24-Mar

13.00

14.06

2005

BOP Tauranga / Matata

18-May

28.50

30.65

2005

Flooding - Gisborne/East Cape

23-Oct

0.70

0.74

2004

Storm Damage - North Island

20 & 21 Jan

0.75

0.84

2004

Storm Damage - Lower Nth Island

15 & 16 Feb

112.00

124.58

2004

Wanganui Hailstorm

6-Apr

1.30

1.44

2004

Eastern Bay of Plenty Floods

17 & 19-Jul

17.60

19.37

2004

Storms - North and South Islands

15 & 20 Aug

8.70

9.55

2004

Flooding - Hawkes Bay

18-Oct

4.80

5.25

2003

Lower North Island Flooding / Storm Damage

9 - 10-Jun

1.00

1.13

2003

North & South Islands / Storms & Floods

3 & 4 Oct

2.30

2.58

2002

Canterbury Hail Storm

5-Jan

3.00

3.49

2002

Canterbury Flooding

14-Jan

0.25

0.29

2002

Dunedin Flooding

17-Jan

0.30

0.35

2002

Wellington / Wairarapa Flooding

10-Jan

0.60

0.70

2002

North Island Flooding / Storm Damage

21-Jun

21.50

24.63

2001

Masterton Hailstorm

7-Jan

1.50

1.78

2001

Storm Damage North Island

4 Nov

0.50

0.58

2001

Wellington / Wairarapa Floods

10-Dec

0.60

0.70

2000

Tauranga / Eastern Bay of Plenty Floods

10-Apr

1.90

2.32

2000

Auckland / Coromandel Floods

3-Jul

7.60

9.22

2000

North Island Severe Weather

26-Sep

4.20

5.03

2000

Canterbury Storms

12-Oct

9.40

11.24

1999

Northland & Pukekohe Floods

22-Jan

5.00

6.19

1999

Dargaville Floods

18-Apr

1.70

2.11

1999

Whangarei / Rotorua Floods

1-May

2.10

2.60

1999

South Canterbury Storms

2-Jul

0.60

0.74

1999

Queenstown Lakes District Floods

1-Dec

46.10

56.77

1998

North & South Island Floods / Storms

1-Jul

11.80

14.56

1998

Mercury Energy Crisis

1-May

10.20

12.62

1998

North & South Islands Storms

22-Oct

6.20

7.62

1998

North & South Islands Storms

30-Oct

2.00

2.46

1998

Upper North Island Storms

29-Nov

5.00

6.17

1997

Cyclone Dreena

11-Jan

3.20

4.01

1997

South Island Storms

21-Jan

1.10

1.38

1997

Wairoa Floods

3-Jun

0.50

0.63

1997

Auckland Floods

24-May

3.70

4.64

1997

Northland Floods

30-Jun

1.20

1.50

1997

Coromandel Floods

25-Sep

0.50

0.62

1997

Auckland Floods

28-Sep

0.70

0.87

1997

Southland & Otago Wind & Hail

13-Nov

0.40

0.50

1997

North & South Island Windstorms

1-Dec

2.90

3.61

1997

South Island Windstorms

19-Dec

0.20

0.25

1996

Weather related losses June & July

3-Jul

8.10

10.27

1996

Weather related losses

1-Dec

2.10

2.64

1996

Cyclone Fergus

30-Dec

1.60

2.00

1995

Whangarei & District Floods

30-Jun

1.70

2.20

1995

New Plymouth Floods

25-Apr

3.60

4.69

1995

Thames / Kaiaua Floods

18-Jul

2.80

3.62

1995

North & South Island Floods

2-Jul

4.50

5.82

1994

Hastings Hailstorm *

30-Jun

10.80

14.61

1994

South Canterbury Floods

19-Feb

1.50

2.04

1994

North & South Storm / Floods

1-Nov

6.00

7.99

1993

Kaikoura Flood

24-Dec

7.60

10.32

1992

Auckland Tornado

30-Jun

1.10

1.52

1992

Canterbury Snowstorm

28-Aug

7.00

9.68

1991

Otago Floods

18-Feb

1.60

2.25

1991

Albany Tornado

30-Jun

1.50

2.10

1990

Taranaki / Wanganui Floods

8-Aug

1.80

2.58

1988

Cyclone Bola

8-Mar

37.00

60.55

1988

Greymouth Floods

1-May

3.20

5.20

1988

Manawatu Floods

25-Jul

2.50

4.03

1988

Greymouth Floods

1-Sep

13.40

21.53

1987

Bay of Plenty Earthquake

30-Jun

192.00

330.11

1986

Auckland Floods

30-Jun

0.40

0.82

1986

Nelson Floods

30-Jun

0.40

0.82

1986

North Otago / South Canterbury Floods

13-Mar

18.50

39.03

1985

South Auckland

1-May

2.90

6.76

1985

Thames / Coromandel / Te Aroha

30-Jun

5.90

13.32

1985

Wellington / Hutt Valley

30-Jun

1.40

3.16

1985

Auckland Floods

30-Jun

3.60

8.13

1985

Chatham Islands

30-Jun

0.80

1.81

1985

Gisborne Floods

30-Jun

1.70

3.84

1985

Hawkes Bay / Wairarapa

30-Jun

0.90

2.03

1984

Invercargill / Southland Floods

1-Jan

45.80

124.09

1984

Greymouth Floods

30-Jun

3.50

9.22

1984

Auckland Floods

30-Jun

1.80

4.74

1983

Christchurch Storm

30-Jun

3.50

9.65

1983

Marlborough / Golden Bay Floods

30-Jun

2.30

6.34

1981

Thames / Coromandel / Paeroa Floods

1-Apr

7.00

25.41

1981

Keri Keri Floods

1-Mar

2.00

7.34

1980

South Island Summer Floods

17-Jan

2.30

9.93

1980

Taieri / Otago / New Plymouth Floods

5-Jun

8.00

32.51

1980

Onehunga Tornado

1 Aug

1.00

1.99

1978

Otago Floods

16-Oct

10.30

53.32

1976

Wellington / Hutt Valley Floods

30-Jun

6.20

42.30

1975

Canterbury Storms

1-Aug

7.00

55.52

1968

Wahine storm

10-Apr

3.50

51.06

1968

Loss of Wahine

10-Apr

10.00

145.87

 

 

 

 

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