US Sets Record for Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters in a Year, with 4 Months to Go September 13, 2023 By Seth Borenstein The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia`s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for...
Study: Climate Change Added $8 Billion to Sandy’s Damages May 19, 2021 By Seth Borenstein Climate change-triggered sea level rise added $8 billion in damage during 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, one of nation’s costliest weather disasters,...
FEMA Official Says Weather-Related Disasters Cost U.S. $200M a Day November 2, 2017 By MICHAEL BIESECKER The U.S. is spending more than $200 million a day responding to recent hurricanes and wildfires, the head of the...
Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Smash U.S. Record December 9, 2011 By SETH BORENSTEIN America smashed the record for billion-dollar weather disasters this year with a deadly dozen, and counting. With an almost biblical...