The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion ...

Last year was the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to new data from ...

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

"This dataset was simply too important to stop being updated." For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's billion-dollar disaster dataset put a dollar figure on the cost of ...

The time between disasters has also grown shorter. In the 1980s, the average gap between billion-dollar disasters was about ...

From Hurricane Melissa to Los Angeles wildfires - Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been impacted by ...

The L.A. wildfires in January 2025 caused $60 billion in damages. The L.A. wildfires in January 2025 caused $60 billion in damages. AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP—Getty Images Editor at Large Every natural ...

As of July 28, 2025, Climate Central now stewards the U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset, continuing and expanding the foundational work established by NOAA’s National Centers ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...