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Screenshot of table showing billion-dollar disaster costs sorted by decade

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This table shows summary statistics of billion-dollar disasters by decade and by latest 1, 3-, and 5-year periods. Costs over the last complete decade, the 5-year average, and the 3-year average are all higher than the costs of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Screenshot from NOAA NCEI Billion-dollar Disasters webpage.