{"chart":{"slug":"failed-bank-assets-by-year","title":"How much money did the banks that failed each year hold?","takeaway":"The five banks that failed in 2023 held $532 billion in assets, and in 2008 Washington Mutual and 24 other failed banks held $372 billion. In 1989, at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis, 530 failed banks and thrifts held $164 billion. Banks that failed in 2025 held $126,404,000. These are dollars of the day, not adjusted for inflation, and assets are what each bank owned (mostly loans and bonds) at its last report before it failed. Depositors lose money only on accounts above the insurance limit; failed banks are usually sold to other banks.","topic":"Banks","chart_type":"bar","ranking":false,"x_label":"Year","y_label":"Assets of banks that failed, dollars","unit":"dollars","points_count":92,"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":"2025-12-31","updated_at":"2026-10-17T18:50:40.941Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/failed-bank-assets-by-year","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/failed-bank-assets-by-year","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/failed-bank-assets-by-year/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/failed-bank-assets-by-year/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/failed-bank-assets-by-year/embed","credit":"FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data, via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/failed-bank-assets-by-year)","credit_html":"FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data, via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/failed-bank-assets-by-year\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":null,"zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"1934","value":2661000},{"label":"1935","value":12324000},{"label":"1936","value":12927000},{"label":"1937","value":19284000},{"label":"1938","value":13919000},{"label":"1939","value":43923000},{"label":"1940","value":7959000},{"label":"1941","value":17811000},{"label":"1942","value":1602000},{"label":"1943","value":14059000},{"label":"1944","value":2098000},{"label":"1945","value":6392000},{"label":"1946","value":351000},{"label":"1947","value":6798000},{"label":"1948","value":10360000},{"label":"1949","value":4885000},{"label":"1950","value":4005000},{"label":"1951","value":3050000},{"label":"1952","value":2389000},{"label":"1953","value":18811000},{"label":"1954","value":1138000},{"label":"1955","value":11986000},{"label":"1956","value":12914000},{"label":"1957","value":1253000},{"label":"1958","value":8905000},{"label":"1959","value":2859000},{"label":"1960","value":7506000},{"label":"1961","value":9819000},{"label":"1962","value":0},{"label":"1963","value":26179000},{"label":"1964","value":25849000},{"label":"1965","value":58750000},{"label":"1966","value":120646000},{"label":"1967","value":11993000},{"label":"1968","value":25155000},{"label":"1969","value":43571000},{"label":"1970","value":62147000},{"label":"1971","value":196519000},{"label":"1972","value":22054000},{"label":"1973","value":1309675000},{"label":"1974","value":3822596000},{"label":"1975","value":419950000},{"label":"1976","value":1039292000},{"label":"1977","value":42358000},{"label":"1978","value":994034000},{"label":"1979","value":132987000},{"label":"1980","value":239316000},{"label":"1981","value":1377909844},{"label":"1982","value":4652702689},{"label":"1983","value":3833144080},{"label":"1984","value":4188925237},{"label":"1985","value":9901523000},{"label":"1986","value":15307286000},{"label":"1987","value":15823491000},{"label":"1988","value":48363949000},{"label":"1989","value":163862508000},{"label":"1990","value":146585865000},{"label":"1991","value":143444562000},{"label":"1992","value":89554183000},{"label":"1993","value":9976901000},{"label":"1994","value":1600689000},{"label":"1995","value":1225943000},{"label":"1996","value":232634000},{"label":"1997","value":27923000},{"label":"1998","value":290238000},{"label":"1999","value":1592189000},{"label":"2000","value":410160000},{"label":"2001","value":1821760000},{"label":"2002","value":2872720000},{"label":"2003","value":947317000},{"label":"2004","value":170099000},{"label":"2005","value":0},{"label":"2006","value":0},{"label":"2007","value":2614928000},{"label":"2008","value":371945480000},{"label":"2009","value":169709160000},{"label":"2010","value":92084988000},{"label":"2011","value":34922997000},{"label":"2012","value":11617348000},{"label":"2013","value":6044051000},{"label":"2014","value":2913503000},{"label":"2015","value":6706038000},{"label":"2016","value":277182000},{"label":"2017","value":5081737000},{"label":"2018","value":0},{"label":"2019","value":208767000},{"label":"2020","value":454986000},{"label":"2021","value":0},{"label":"2022","value":0},{"label":"2023","value":532228416000},{"label":"2024","value":5974040000},{"label":"2025","value":126404000}],"annotations":[{"to":"1992","from":"1986","text":"After interest rates soared around 1980 and real estate and energy loans went bad, hundreds of savings and loans (thrifts) and banks failed each year, with a peak of 530 failures in 1989. Congress set up the Resolution Trust Corporation in 1989 to close the failed thrifts.","title":"Savings-and-loan crisis"},{"to":"2010","from":"2008","text":"As home prices fell and mortgage losses mounted, 322 banks failed from 2008 through 2010, including Washington Mutual in 2008, the biggest U.S. bank failure on record.","title":"Financial crisis"},{"to":"2023","from":"2023","text":"Only five banks failed, but three of them, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank, were among the four biggest failures on record. Rising interest rates had cut the value of the bonds they held, and depositors pulled their money out quickly.","title":"Bank runs of 2023"}]},"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/failed-bank-assets-by-year)"}