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Source:  NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2021).

 

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The United States is a big country with a lot of diverse ecosystems. All that land is subject to an array of natural disasters. The worst by a wide margin are hurricanes, which single-handedly account for nearly half of all damages and deaths due to disasters. Here are the stats gathered by NOAA since 1980 by disaster type:

The U.S. has sustained 273 weather-related disasters since 1980 in which overall damages and costs reached or exceeded $1 billion at the time of the event, and with cumulative costs topping $1 trillion. 16 occurred during 2011 alone—the most for any year on record, with total costs of $52 billion. Each of the past four years has had 12 or more, and 2020 is currently on pace to meet the record set in 2011. All in all, the rate of billion dollar disasters nearly doubled from the 2000s to the 2010s, adjusting for inflation.

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