Report: 2025's First-Half Climate Disasters Costliest Ever in the US

Another Climate “Science” Scandal?

Like a zombie, the so-called “billion dollar disasters” (BDD) tabulation is back. This week the advocacy group Climate Central announced that it was the new home of the effort, formerly housed at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To much fanfare and media attention, Climate Central released its supposedly newly-tabulated numbers for 2025 to date. Remarkably, the shenanigans associated with the BDD are apparently co…

First half of this year had record-breaking price tag for weather disasters

Deadly California wildfires cost more than $60 billion, the most expensive wildfire disaster on record

First half of 2025 was the costliest first 6 months of weather on record

A new report shows that the first six months of 2025 were the costliest on record for weather and climate disasters. The nonprofit news organization Climate Central said each of 14 weather events caused more than $1 billion in damage.  However, this information may not have been compiled if not for Climate Central. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had tracked data on weather- and climate-related disasters for years. But…

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.

US Sees 14 Billion-Dollar Disasters in First Half of 2025

Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2025 cost the US $101.4 billion. The LA wildfires were the costliest event.

U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster Database Axed in May, Now Saved

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) comprehensive Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, which has, since 1980, track