Bars over time
Assets of Failed U.S. Banks by Year
Total assets of FDIC-insured institutions that failed each year, nominal $ billions
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
FDIC failures data, assets from each bank’s last report before failure. Assets are not losses to the insurance fund. Years where the FDIC’s file lacks a failed bank’s assets are left out.
How big each year’s failures were. A handful of very large banks, in 2008 and again in 2023, outweigh the hundreds of small failures of other years.
What this chart reads
- Assets of Failed U.S. Banks per Year (FDIC)as “Assets of failed banks”latest 2025-12-31
Sources
Assets of Failed U.S. Banks per Year (FDIC). Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, BankFind Suite failures API (api.fdic.gov/banks/failures). Public domain (FDIC data catalog, U.S. public domain label). Source: FDIC. Refreshed weekly.
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