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 ...
Senate Democrats are seeking to revive a database that had tracked billion-dollar climate and weather disasters for decades until the Trump administration retired it in May. The National Oceanic and ...
Click the downloadable graphic: Billion-Dollar Disasters January - June 2025 The future of this database of the most costly U.S. weather and climate disasters was uncertain after the National Oceanic ...
The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ...
News coverage of major hurricanes, flash floods, extreme wildfires and other weather disasters often follows a familiar cadence. Headlines announce catastrophic devastation. Death tolls are tallied.
In 2024, Hurricane Helene triggered a nationwide shortage of the country's intravenous (IV) fluids after damaging a facility in North Carolina. A similar IV fluid shortage was caused when Hurricane ...