US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year -- with four months yet to go

U.S. Sets Record for Billion-Dollar Disasters in a Single Year, With Almost Four Months to Go

With four months to go in 2023, the U.S. has set a record for the most natural disasters that have cost $1 billion or more in a single year.

2023 sets a record for the most billion-dollar disasters in the U.S.

Ryan Billion-Dollar disaster report 9/12 INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just updated the running count of billion-dollar disasters in 2023. In the United States, there have been 23 separate billion-dollar disasters through the end of August. With events in prior years’ CPI adjusted to account for the change in the value of the dollar, 2023 has had the most billion-dollar disasters since NOAA star…

US hit by record number of billion-dollar disasters between January and August of 2023

A new, rather alarming, record has been set by the United States, for the number of weather-related disasters in a year that cost millions of dollars. These disasters included the Hawaii fires in August, flooding in California in the spring, and Hurricane Idalia which devastated Florida last month.  Official data showed on Monday (September 11) that so far, the US was struck by a record-breaking 23 weather and climate disasters between January a

US sets record for expensive weather disasters in a year -- with four months yet to go

The U.S. has already set a year-long record for the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion.

Number of billion-dollar weather disasters in US blows through annual record with four months left in the year - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports

(CNN) — It’s been a record-smashing year for the most expensive weather and climate disasters in the United States this year after severe storms, the deadly Maui wildfire and Hurricane Idalia tipped the scales last month. With four months still left in the year, the US has been hit with 23 disasters that each cost at least $1 billion, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, surpassing the previous annual r…

U.S. record for billion-dollar disasters shattered in 2023, with months still left to go

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The United States has suffered 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters this year, the largest number since records began being kept nearly 45 years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Monday.