Weather disasters cost the United States billions in 2025 despite no hurricanes. What caused the billion-dollar disasters and ...

The costliest disasters were hailstorms, tornadoes and high winds … Chemicals used in plastics linked to higher death risks … Black, Hispanic children more likely to live in poverty … and more.

Experts warn that after 23 billion-dollar weather disasters killed 276 people and caused $115B in damage in 2025, the U.S.

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

The data’s in for 2025. It was yet another year of back-to-back billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.

Smoke choked the Los Angeles skyline in January 2025 as wildfires ravaged neighborhoods, sirens blared under urgent evacuation orders, and entire blocks turned to ash in days. This scene marked the ...

Eaton Fire victim Ray Ahn amid the rubble of his burned-out home in Altadena, Calif., on Jan. 21. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The first half of this year was the costliest ...

Adam Smith is Climate Central’s Senior Climate Impacts Scientist, leading the redevelopment of the U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters research. His work will integrate with other ...