United States Increasingly Struck by Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters

Number of billion-dollar disasters in the United States per decade, adjusted for the consumer price index

This bar chart shows that number of billion-dollar disasters and their respective total costs are increasing in the United States per decade.

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The total cost of disasters for each decade is as follows: $219.6B in the 1980s, $335.3B in the 1990s, $621.3B in the 2000s, $994.6B in the 2010s, and $746.7B from 2020 to 2024.

Source: National Centers for Environmental Information.Get the data