US EditionReport: 2025's First-Half Climate Disasters Costliest Ever in the US
Climate Central revived the database after NOAA stopped updates, reporting 14 billion-dollar disasters in 2025 causing $101.4 billion in damages across the U.S.
- Wednesday, Climate Central relaunched the U.S. billion-dollar disaster database under Adam Smith, revealing 14 disasters caused $101.4 billion in damage in the first half of 2025.
- After NOAA ended the program on May 7, 2025, the site went dark this summer as staff departed and Adam Smith said, `I would also say this dataset was simply too important to stop being updated.'
- Los Angeles County's January wildfires produced $61.2 billion in damage, destroyed 16,246 structures and claimed 31 lives, nearly twice the 2018 California fires' $31 billion damage.
- Insurers, policymakers and researchers rely on the billion-dollar disaster database, which Climate Central will host alongside climate.gov archives, and NOAA spokesperson Kim Doster said the agency appreciates its new funding mechanism.
- Long-Term trends reveal 417 billion-dollar disasters since 1980 caused $3.1 trillion in damage, with annual events rising from three per year in the 1980s to 19 annually in the last decade.
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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 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.
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