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Bar chart showing monthly counts of disasters by type

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The monthly climatology of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters from 1980 to 2024, showing which months have the greater frequency of disasters (height of bar) and which types of events (colors) are most likely to occur in a given month. Screenshot from NOAA NCEI Billion-dollar Disasters webpage.