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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Climate Matters analysis is based on open-access data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Western Regional Climate ...