US EditionRevived US Climate-Disaster Database Shows Record $101 Billion in Losses in First Half of Year
Climate Central revived NOAA’s billion-dollar disaster database after its May 2025 shutdown, tracking 14 costly disasters causing $101.4 billion in the US first half of 2025.
- On May 7, 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's billion-dollar disasters program ended, and Climate Central relaunched the database under Adam Smith using NOAA's methodology.
- Cost and staffing pressures prompted the decision to end the project, with NOAA facing 18%–20% cuts and the database costing about $300,000 annually under the Trump administration.
- Climate Central's update found 14 billion-dollar disaster events caused $101.4 billion in damage in six months, with the January Los Angeles wildfires inflicting over $61 billion and destroying around 16,000 buildings.
- Last month, Senate Democrats pushed legislation to restore federal publication, while Climate Central’s relaunch makes data available to insurers, policy makers, meteorologists and citizens.
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In first six months of 2025, cost of weather catastrophes escalated at a record pace
The Trump administration this year stopped updating a federal database that tracked the cost of extreme weather and informed an annual list of hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters that each caused at least $1 billion in damage.
They Revived NOAA's Database. The Numbers Aren't Great
In the first six months of this year, extreme weather disasters in the US racked up more than $100 billion in damages, according to a new database from the nonprofit Climate Central that picks up where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) left off. NOAA had tracked all billion-dollar...
Extreme weather events in the United States caused record losses in the first half of 2025, revealed on Wednesday a emblematic database on the subject, discarded by Donald Trump’s government and taken up by the scientist in charge. In total, 14 climate disasters between January and June caused inflation-adjusted damage of $101.4 billion, although it is possible that 2025, as a whole, will not reach a record due to a milder than usual hurricane s…
The weather disaster database that Trump killed has a new home
The national database on billion-dollar weather and climate disasters has found a new home after the Trump administration decided to ax it earlier this year. Thanks to researchers continuing the work despite a lack of federal support, we can keep the tally going this year — which is already proving to be one of the costliest on record. Until recently, the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) have shared data and insights on bil…
Trump Axed NOAA’s Climate Disaster Data. This Group Brought It Back
Every natural disaster presents a bill when it’s done. Hurricane Katrina, which inundated the Gulf States in 2005, did $201.3 billion worth of damage. Superstorm Sandy, which hit the northeast in 2012, cost $71 billion. The drought and heat wave that seared 22 midwestern and western states in 2012 set the U.S. back $41.7 billion. Since 1980, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has maintained a database tracking these bank-…
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