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Table showing summary stats of billion-dollar disasters by event type

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This table shows the breakdown, by hazard type, of the 403 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters assessed since 1980. Severe storms are far and away the most frequent type of billion-dollar disaster. Screenshot from the NOAA NCEI Billion-dollar Disasters webpage.