Weather disasters cost the United States billions in 2025 despite no hurricanes. What caused the billion-dollar disasters and ...

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Total damages caused by weather and climate events in the U.S. last year totaled $115 billion, according to Climate Central.

The U.S. faced 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2025, totaling $101.4 billion in damages, according to data from Climate Central. January's Los Angeles ...

The 2024 total includes 17 severe weather events, four tropical cyclones, one wildfire and two winter storms. NOAA attributes at least 418 deaths to these billion-dollar disasters. Our wish for 2025 ...

WASHINGTON — Climate Central crunched the numbers and found that last year officially ranks third for the most billion-dollar ...

The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia's watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there's still ...

Billion dollar disasters are an important metric tracked by atmospheric scientists. Climate Central has compiled the list for ...

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ...

America experienced 14 separate weather disasters with damage of at least $1 billion during the first six months of 2025, led by the historic Southern California wildfires in January. 2025's Toll ...

The first half of this year was the costliest ever recorded for weather and climate disasters in the United States, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit organization Climate ...