Damage from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas totaled $3.4 billion, equal to about a quarter of the island nation’s annual economic output, a report by the Inter-American Development Bank said.
That’s equivalent to the United States losing the combined economies of Florida, California and Texas, the Miami Herald reported. The scale of the damage means the Bahamas has a difficult path to reconstruction.
The official death toll from the monster storm stands at 67, but the report said 282 people were still missing as of late October. Nearly 29,500 people lost homes or jobs — or both — when the Category 5 storm hit Grand Bahama and Abaco islands in early September.
Abaco was hardest hit, suffering 87 percent of the damage. More than 75 percent of all homes were damaged on the island.

Reconstruction will require big investments and will take many years, the development bank said.

Dorian was one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever to make landfall, unleashing a storm surge of up to 25 feet.