Disaster relief links:

www.fema.gov

www.redcross.org

www.salvationarmy.org

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On September 1, 2005 the Federal Government of the United States estimated that the total area affected by Hurricane Katrina was approximately 90,000 square miles.  The area affected included portions of Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.  The following table has been prepared to demonstrate the enormous scale of this disaster.

Imagine an area larger than any one of 40 American states totally wiped out.  No infrastructure, no food, no water and no jobs.  Please donate to the American Red Cross, or your favorite relief agency to help those affected by this disaster.

States larger than 90,000 square miles

 

States less than 90,000 square miles


State

Rank
(total area)

Land
area

Water
area

Total
area

Alabama

30

50,744.00

1,675.01

52,419.02

Alaska

1

571,951.26

91,316.00

663,267.26

Arizona

6

113,634.57

363.73

113,998.30

Arkansas

29

52,068.17

1,110.45

53,178.62

California

3

155,959.34

7,736.23

163,695.57

Colorado

8

103,717.53

376.04

104,093.57

Connecticut

48

4,844.80

698.53

5,543.33

Delaware

49

1,953.56

535.71

2,489.27

Dist. of  Columbia

61.4

6.94

68.34

Florida

22

53,926.82

11,827.77

65,754.59

Georgia

24

57,906.14

1,518.63

59,424.77

Hawaii

43

6,422.62

4,508.36

10,930.98

Idaho

14

82,747.21

822.87

83,570.08

Illinois

25

55,583.58

2,330.79

57,914.38

Indiana

38

35,866.90

550.83

36,417.73

Iowa

26

55,869.36

402.2

56,271.55

Kansas

15

81,814.88

461.96

82,276.84

Kentucky

37

39,728.18

680.85

40,409.02

Louisiana

31

43,561.85

8,277.85

51,839.70

Maine

39

30,861.55

4,523.10

35,384.65

Maryland

42

9,773.82

2,632.86

12,406.68

Massachusetts

44

7,840.02

2,714.55

10,554.57

Michigan

11

56,803.82

39,912.28

96,716.11

Minnesota

12

79,610.08

7,328.79

86,938.87

Mississippi

32

46,906.96

1,523.24

48,430.19

Missouri

21

68,885.93

818.39

69,704.31

Montana

4

145,552.43

1,489.96

147,042.40

Nebraska

16

76,872.41

481.31

77,353.73

Nevada

7

109,825.99

734.71

110,560.71

New  Hampshire

46

8,968.10

381.84

9,349.94

New Jersey

47

7,417.34

1,303.96

8,721.30

New Mexico

5

121,355.53

233.96

121,589.48

New York

27

47,213.79

7,342.22

54,556.00

North Carolina

28

48,710.88

5,107.63

53,818.51

North Dakota

19

68,975.93

1,723.86

70,699.79

Ohio

34

40,948.38

3,876.53

44,824.90

Oklahoma

20

68,667.06

1,231.13

69,898.19

Oregon

9

95,996.79

2,383.85

98,380.64

Pennsylvania

33

44,816.61

1,238.63

46,055.24

Rhode Island

50

1,044.93

500.12

1,545.05

South Carolina

40

30,109.47

1,910.73

32,020.20

South Dakota

17

75,884.64

1,231.85

77,116.49

Tennessee

36

41,217.12

926.15

42,143.27

Texas

2

261,797.12

6,783.70

268,580.82

Utah

13

82,143.65

2,755.18

84,898.83

Vermont

45

9,249.56

364.7

9,614.26

Virginia

35

39,594.07

3,180.13

42,774.20

Washington

18

66,544.06

4,755.58

71,299.64

West Virginia

41

24,077.73

152.03

24,229.76

Wisconsin

23

54,310.10

11,187.72

65,497.82

Wyoming

10

97,100.40

713.16

97,813.56

1. Dry land and land temporarily or partially covered by water, such as marshland, swamps, etc.; streams and canals under one-eighth statute mile wide; and lakes, reservoirs, and ponds under 40 acres.
2. Permanent inland water surface, such as lakes, reservoirs, and ponds having an area of 40 acres or more; streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals one-eighth statute mile or more in width; deeply indented embayments and sounds, and other coastal waters behind or sheltered by headlands or islands separated by less than 1 nautical mile of water, and islands under 40 acres in area. Excludes areas of oceans, bays, sounds, etc. lying within U.S. jurisdiction but not defined as inland water.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

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