Click the downloadable graphic: Billion-Dollar Disasters January - June 2025 The future of this database of the most costly U.S. weather and climate disasters was uncertain after the National Oceanic ...

Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.

Use the interactive mapping tool below to better visualize the frequency and cost of billion-dollar weather and climate events. Select a desired combination of disaster types along with metric and ...

As of July 28, 2025, Climate Central now stewards the U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset, continuing and expanding the foundational work established by NOAA’s National Centers ...

The charts above show the 46-year history of U.S. ‘compound extremes’ (e.g., billion dollar disaster events that occur at the same time or in sequence). The physical and socioeconomic impacts of ...

Why use a threshold of $1 billion? Even though $1B is an arbitrary threshold, these specific events account for the majority (>80%) of the damage from all recorded U.S. weather and climate events ...

Walking along the waterfront in Fort Lauderdale and admiring the 60-foot yachts docked alongside impressive homes, it’s hard to imagine that this city could suffer the same financial fate as Detroit.

The entire planet is warming due to human-caused climate change, but the built environment further amplifies both average temperatures and extreme heat in cities. According to the U.S. Environmental ...

The Great Lakes form the planet’s largest freshwater system. They hold one-fifth of all fresh water on Earth’s surface and supply drinking water for over 30 million people across the eight neighboring ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

America’s capacity to generate carbon-free electricity grew during 2023 — part of a decade-long growth trend for renewable energy. Solar and wind account for more of our nation’s energy mix than ever ...