Figure 2

Spatial distribution of state-level (a) mean annual flood damage (in thousands of current dollars), (b) the standard deviation of flood damage normalized by the mean (i.e., coefficient of variation, CV), (c) median GDP (in millions of current dollars) and (d) median GDP/median POP (in thousands) for the period of 1955–99. Figure was created using software ArcGIS 10.1 (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis).