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July 12-14, 2015: $36.9 million
Storms uprooted trees in the Bethel Twp., Clark County area on July 14, 2015. This truck was damaged by an uprooted tree in the 9000 block of Milton-Carlisle Road. Seven states were affected by a series of thunderstorms that, in total, caused $465.8 million in damages. MARSHALL GORBY / STAFF
May 23-28, 2015: $14.8 million
A late afternoon wind storm on May 22, 2015, toppled cars and tore roofs off businesses at the Greene Crossing Shopping Center in Beavercreek. The nine-state storm front caused just more han $1 billion in damages. LISA POWELL / STAFF
April 7-10, 2015: $62.7 million
Jefferson Twp. crews clean debris after a vacant church was damaged by high winds on April 8, 2015, in the village of Bowersville in Greene County. Hail and wind hit 16 states including Ohio, causing more than $1.2 billion in damages. JIM WITMER/STAFF
May 10-14, 2014: $172.7 million
Damages caused by a tornado that struck Cedarville on May 14, 2014. The series of storms, which included the Cedarville tornado, caused nearly one-half billion dollars in damages in the region. RICH WIRDZEK / STAFF
Jan. 5-8, 2014: Between $97.8-$172.7 million
Chris Smedley, a water technician with Dayton company ServiceMASTER Restore by Angler, brings more equipment into a Springboro home that suffered water damage caused by pipes that burst from freezing temperatures Wednesday night, Jan. 8, 2014. A "polar vortex" set record lows across Ohio and several other states during that week. LISA POWELL / STAFF
Nov. 17-18, 2013: $54 million
Charlie Kaiser works on the roof to untangle his his friend's ham radio antennas and tower that were blown down by high winds on Sunday night, Nov. 17, 2013, in Vandalia. A several-state outbreak of straight-line winds produced a total of 136 tornadoes in the two-day period. DEE MOORMAN / STAFF
July 10, 2013: $84.8 million
An Ohio Edison supervisor looks over one of the four utility poles that were snapped at the intersection of Wellington Drive and Dorchester Drive in Springfield Twp. during a storm on July 10, 2013. Three tornadoes touched down throughout Ohio on this day of storms. BILL LACKEY / STAFF
Oct. 29-30, 2012: $292 million
Members of the Springfield Fire Division responded to Weiler Welding on West Columbia Street after the strong winds Tuesday morning, Oct. 30, 2012, ripped the roof off the business. Northeastern Ohio saw the brunt of the storm-related losses in the state resulting from Superstorm Sandy. MARSHALL GORBY / STAFF
June-July 2012: $845 million
The Freedom's Call Tattoo at the National Museum of the United States Air Force was canceled after a strong storm hit the area on Friday, June 29, 2012. The combination of a June 29 derecho and July 1 storms produced damages among the costliest in recent memory in Ohio. CONTRIBUTED BY CHARLES CAPERTON
May 20-27, 2011: $1.05 billion
Jackson Hoffer, 8, of Bellbrook examines hail from a storm on Wednesday, May 25, 2011. This weeklong storm event caused as much as $6.9 billion in damages across the several-state region. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF
April 22-28, 2011: $80 million
Angie Corrello, owner of Secure Storage on New Carlisle Pike, talks about the storm that ripped apart one of her New Carlisle business' storage buildings Wednesday, April 27, 2011. The weeklong storm event included a tornado touchdown in New Carlisle on April 27. BILL LACKEY / STAFF
Feb. 27-28, 2011: $68.9 million
An early morning ice and snow storm snarled traffic throughout the Dayton area, including Interstate 70 near Brookville and Huber Heights, in late February 2011. The area was hit by both snow and rain storms late in the month. TY GREENLEES / STAFF
February 2010: $28.2 million
Mike Kingdom, a street maintenance worker for the City of Oakwood, cuts tree limbs Monday Feb. 8, 2010, that were broken by the weight of snow the previous week. A series of storms throughout February caused a total of 12,173 claims throughout Ohio. LISA POWELL / STAFF
Feb. 11-12, 2009: $88.9 million
Chad Gregory, an employee of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, uses his coat to cover his head from the rain as he takes down one of the company's flag signs before it blows away Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009. Southwest Ohio was struck by storms brought on by unseasonably warm weather that brought major gusts, including a gust of 76 mph in Darke County. MARSHALL GORBY / STAFF
Sept. 14, 2008: $1.255 billion
Diane Labrie, left, and Nedra Smolka clear their yard at 817 Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. The remnants of Hurricane Ike caused the costliest natural disaster in Ohio in recent years. LARRY C. PRICE / STAFF
Ohio's most damaging storms
Source: Ohio Insurance Institute
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