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English: Graph of number billion-dollar climate-related events in the United States, and annual costs of those events, based on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
  • Data for Version 16 (data through 2025):
  • For the dollar figure for 2025: 1980-2025 United States Billion-Dollar Disaster Year-to-Date Event Cost (CPI-Adjusted). Climate Central (January 2026). Archived from the original on 8 January 2026.
  • For the "23 disasters" figure for 2025: Simon, Matt Simon, Matt (8 January 2026). "In 2025, the US suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days". Grist. Archived from the original on 8 January 2026.
  • Uploader manually discounted value of pre-2025 years by the same ratio that was present in Climate Central's chosen years.
  • Relevant news event: "(Noaa) will no longer track the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change." (The Guardian source, May 2025) and archive thereof)
  • Versions 10+ are updates through 2024.
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202050919/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series
  • Versions 8 and 9 are updates through 2023.
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20240113044752/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series/US
  • Version 6 is an update through 2022.
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20221231055639/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series
  • Version 4 is an update through 2021, with sources:
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20220111143455/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/calculating-cost-weather-and-climate-disasters
  • Most XML code for Version 4 was made by the Column Chart and Horizontal Bar Chart spreadsheets at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Earlier versions were made with Inkscape.
  • Version 2 is an update through end of 2020, with source:
  • Version 1 upload is based on data through September 2020, indicated by the "+" above 2020's bar in bar chart.


  • Downloaded data listing is provided below.
Date
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Author RCraig09

Source data

Data through 2024.
Cost values for previous years change as successive years' data is added annually, presumably due to retroactive adjustments for inflation.

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Year _ Count _ Cost
1980 _ 3 _ 45.4
1981 _ 2 _ 3.5
1982 _ 3 _ 5.4
1983 _ 6 _ 36.3
1984 _ 2 _ 3.3
1985 _ 7 _ 22.5
1986 _ 3 _ 7.8
1987 _ 0 _ 0
1988 _ 1 _ 54.4
1989 _ 6 _ 40.3
1990 _ 4 _ 14.5
1991 _ 4 _ 19.6
1992 _ 7 _ 79.7
1993 _ 5 _ 65.7
1994 _ 6 _ 16.4
1995 _ 7 _ 35.5
1996 _ 5 _ 23.2
1997 _ 3 _ 15.1
1998 _ 11 _ 40.0
1999 _ 5 _ 24.4
2000 _ 5 _ 15.5
2001 _ 3 _ 21.8
2002 _ 6 _ 27.1
2003 _ 7 _ 38.3
2004 _ 6 _ 92.2
2005 _ 6 _ 267.0
2006 _ 8 _ 25.2
2007 _ 5 _ 18.8
2008 _ 12 _ 93.9
2009 _ 9 _ 19.8
2010 _ 7 _ 20.2
2011 _ 18 _ 97.9
2012 _ 11 _ 158.9
2013 _ 10 _ 32.1
2014 _ 10 _ 25.3
2015 _ 11 _ 30.9
2016 _ 15 _ 61.1
2017 _ 19 _ 395.7
2018 _ 16 _ 115.9
2019 _ 14 _ 55.4
2020 _ 22 _ 120.3
2021 _ 20 _ 164.2
2022 _ 18 _ 182.5
2023 _ 28 _ 95.1
2024 _ 27 _ 182.7


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Graph of number billion-dollar climate-related events in the United States, and annual costs of those events, based on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information

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