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Weather disasters cost the United States billions in 2025 despite no hurricanes. What caused the billion-dollar disasters and ...

The U.S. faced 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2025, totaling $101.4 billion in damages, according to data from Climate Central. January's Los Angeles ...

WASHINGTON — Climate Central crunched the numbers and found that last year officially ranks third for the most billion-dollar ...

Billion dollar disasters are an important metric tracked by atmospheric scientists. Climate Central has compiled the list for ...

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ...

(CNN) — The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first ...

America experienced 14 separate weather disasters with damage of at least $1 billion during the first six months of 2025, led by the historic Southern California wildfires in January. 2025's Toll ...