{"chart":{"slug":"biggest-bank-failures","title":"What were the biggest U.S. bank failures?","takeaway":"Washington Mutual Bank (2008) is the biggest U.S. bank failure on record, with $307 billion in assets. Next come First Republic Bank (2023), Silicon Valley Bank (2023) and Signature Bank (2023), with $213 billion, $209 billion and $110 billion. Assets are what each bank owned at its last report before it failed, in dollars of the day, not adjusted for inflation, so older failures look smaller than they were.","topic":"Banks","chart_type":"bar","ranking":true,"x_label":"Bank (year it failed)","y_label":"Assets when it failed, dollars","unit":"dollars","points_count":25,"source":{"name":"FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data","url":"https://banks.data.fdic.gov/bankfind-suite/failures"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (U.S. government work; FDIC)","url":"https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright"},"data_as_of":"2026-07-17","updated_at":"2026-10-17T18:50:40.467Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/biggest-bank-failures","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/biggest-bank-failures","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/biggest-bank-failures/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/biggest-bank-failures/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/biggest-bank-failures/embed","credit":"FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/biggest-bank-failures)","credit_html":"FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data, via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/biggest-bank-failures\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":null,"zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"Washington Mutual Bank (2008)","value":307021614000},{"label":"First Republic Bank (2023)","value":212638872000},{"label":"Silicon Valley Bank (2023)","value":209026000000},{"label":"Signature Bank (2023)","value":110363650000},{"label":"IndyMac Bank F.S.B (2008)","value":30698512000},{"label":"Colonial Bank (2009)","value":25455112000},{"label":"First RepublicBank-Dallas (1988)","value":17085655000},{"label":"Guaranty Bank (2009)","value":13464352000},{"label":"Bank of New England (1991)","value":13428614000},{"label":"Gibraltar Savings, FA (1989)","value":13382327000},{"label":"BankUnited, FSB (2009)","value":13111463000},{"label":"Downey Savings and Loan Association, F.A. (2008)","value":12779371000},{"label":"HomeFed Bank, FA (1992)","value":12175590000},{"label":"AmTrust Bank (2009)","value":11438990000},{"label":"Southeast Bank (1991)","value":11026691000},{"label":"United Commercial Bank (2009)","value":10895336000},{"label":"Westernbank Puerto Rico (2010)","value":10797345000},{"label":"Goldome (1991)","value":9890866000},{"label":"City Savings, FSB (1989)","value":9813776000},{"label":"Imperial Federal Savings Assoc. (1990)","value":9581584000},{"label":"Great American FSA (1991)","value":9523603000},{"label":"Franklin FSA (1990)","value":9258163000},{"label":"CenTrust Bank, SB (1990)","value":8217563000},{"label":"Empire of America FSB (1990)","value":8173572000},{"label":"California National Bank (2009)","value":7781100000}],"annotations":[]},"docs":"https://chart.ly/developers","terms":"Free to use with credit: wherever you show or quote a chart's data, name Chartly with a link to that chart's url (each chart's credit line does both) and credit its source as its license asks.","credit":"FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/biggest-bank-failures)"}