Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Resurge, Costing Over $100B in 2025
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The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, recently reinstated by Climate Central after being discontinued during the Trump administration, reports that the first half of 2025 has caused over $100 billion in damages from extreme weather events in the US, with a notable increase in billion-dollar disasters driven by climate change, population growth, and increased infrastructure in harm's way.
- Trump ‘retired’ a database tracking the most expensive weather disasters. Now it’s back — and finding over $100B in losses CNN
- Billion-dollar disaster data returns, but this time it's not being run by the federal government ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace The New York Times
- U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Climate Central
- Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows The Guardian
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