Billion Dollar Disasters in the U.S.

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US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year — and there’s still 4 months to go

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 four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities.

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? Billion-dollar disasters soar

Data: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Chart: Jared Whalen/Axios This chart shows the rising frequency of inflation-adjusted billion-dollar disasters in the U.S.: There was an average of one every four months in the 1980s. There's an average of one every three weeks now, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Crucial context: This results from climate change + population growth, Axios extreme-weather expert Andrew Freedman notes. Explore the data ...