America's most expensive natural disasters in recent decades
The costliest disasters on the National Centers for Environmental Information "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" ...
Estimated cost of fire damage balloons to more than $250 billion
As wildfires continue in Southern California, estimates of the total economic loss from the blazes have ballooned to more ...
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LA Wildfires Set to Surpass Hurricane Katrina as Most Expensive US Natural Disaster
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Georgia Farmers Say Hurricane Helene is Most Catastrophic, Costly Storm Ever
Farmers in southeast Georgia are still trying to recover from Hurricane Helene, the most catastrophic and costly hurricane they’ve ever seen, superseding even Hurricane Katrina. Cleanup is ...
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Destructive hurricanes, sweltering heat waves: Extreme weather events cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars this year
“This was one of the most destructive and expensive hurricane seasons in modern history.” “The impacts of extreme weather have taken a major financial and emotional toll on millions of ...
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The disaster vultures
A 2021 study of the 20 most-expensive hurricanes on record showed that in each case, home values in disaster areas increased at a higher rate the year after the disaster — compared to the same ...
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Extreme weather in 2024 sent insured losses soaring to the highest in 7 years
As weather catastrophes have gotten more extreme—and more expensive—amid ... on their climate coverage in hurricane- or fire-exposed areas that need it most. Only $16 billion of Hurricane ...