This analysis explores the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) storm database to determine which types of weather events are most harmful to population health and which have the greatest economic consequences. By analyzing event types, fatalities, injuries, and property damage data from 1950 to 2011, we identify tornadoes, excessive heat, and floods as major contributors to both health and economic impacts. The analysis includes loading, cleaning, and summarizing the raw data and presents key insights through reproducible code and plots.