Climate Central’s dataset, updated through last month, tracks 426 events that each caused at least $1 billion in damage between 1980 and 2025. Combined, these disasters have a total CPI-adjusted cost ...

It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, the costliest fire outbreak in US history ‒ helped push the nation's ...

Experts warn that after 23 billion-dollar weather disasters killed 276 people and caused $115B in damage in 2025, the U.S. could face even worse risks in 2026. In 2025, 23 billion-dollar weather ...

More frequent hurricanes and wildfires take a mental toll on heavily impacted communities around the world, experts say.

Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on the rise. Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows ...

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Climate change-driven weather disasters like hurricanes, wildfires and floods pose an immediate threat to the U.S. drug supply chain, a new study says. Nearly two-thirds of all U.S. pharmaceutical ...

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 ...

Climate change is turbocharging heat waves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path? Annual climate reports released last week ...

From tornadoes and hurricanes to wildfires and floods, weather and climate disasters cause billions of dollars in damage, on top of their steep human toll. Those costs could rise sharply in the years ...

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In 2025, Climate Central began to oversee the “billion-dollar disaster” database, taking it over from the federal government. This followed the Trump administration's decision to no longer run the ...