With Hurricane Helene at the top of the list, there were 27 disasters in the United States in 2024 that individually cost $1 billion or more. It was the second-highest number since the NOAA record began in 1980.
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With 28 events, 2023 easily surpassed 2020 as the year with the most billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. The preliminary price tag is at least $92.9 billion.
The country experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, tying for third place for the most disasters in a calendar year.
Most models project that further warming will decrease the total number of Atlantic hurricanes, but increase the number of very strong storms.
Two NOAA hurricane experts explain why it’s still so hard to say whether global warming to date has affected the number or intensity of Atlantic hurricanes.
Second-highest in number and third-highest in costs, 2021 was another extreme year for weather and climate disasters in the United States.
2020 smashed the previous record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. NCEI's Adam Smith gives us a full accounting of the year's events.
In 2019, the U.S. experienced 14 separate disasters costing at least a billion dollars each. Since 1980, 258 billion-dollar disasters have brought damages in excess of $1.75 trillion.
With the annual updating of NCEI’s climate trends maps, let’s go Beyond the Data to a land of seesaws and duct tape.
First massive flooding and then a blizzard, the Plains and Upper Midwest experienced huge weather events in March and April 2019. In this installment of the Beyond the Data blog, NCEI's Deke Arndt provides a post-game analysis.