US EditionReport: 2025's First-Half Climate Disasters Costliest Ever in the US
Climate Central revived the database after federal cuts, showing 14 billion-dollar disasters caused $101.4 billion in losses by mid-2025, the costliest start on record.
- 2025 has seen the highest costs from weather disasters, totaling $101.4 billion due to 14 events, including the Los Angeles wildfires, which caused $61.2 billion in damage, as reported by Climate Central.
- The NOAA's billion-dollar disasters database was cut by the Trump administration, leading to concerns about data availability and preparation for future disasters.
- Climate Central has revived the database, using former NOAA methods to track disaster-related damages, according to Adam Smith, their senior climate impact scientist.
- Critics argue that the NOAA dataset was flawed; however, scientists agree that climate change is increasing disaster frequency and costs, highlighting the need for reliable data.
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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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