US Northeast Nor'easter
A powerful nor'easter battered New York and New Jersey, killing at least one person and disrupting coastal communities under emergency declarations.
Severity score
10.3
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
A powerful nor'easter struck parts of the US East Coast, particularly New York and New Jersey, causing coastal disruption and prompting a state of emergency in the tri-state area.
At least one death was reported after a falling tree struck a New York Housing Authority worker. The supplied headlines do not establish a broader casualty or damage total.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
2Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
12People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
13Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
7Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
30Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
Recent coverage
- 03 Oct 2026pbs.orgPowerful nor'easter batters parts of East Coast | PBS News
- 03 Oct 2026cbsnews.comNor'easter causes havoc along coastal communities in N.Y. and N.J.
- 03 Oct 2026youtube.comWatch Live: Tri-State Area under state of emergency as nor'easter closes in
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