{"id":29586,"date":"2026-01-08T21:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29586"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:56:07","slug":"23-billion-dollar-disasters-in-the-us-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/01\/23-billion-dollar-disasters-in-the-us-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Billion-Dollar Disasters in the US in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The annual overview of the worst disasters in the US was formerly collected by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. While some people question its relevance, it does provide a decent overview of how much weather and climate impacted our country this past year. But with the downsizing of NOAA this past year, the billion-dollar-disaster map was eliminated from NCEI. Fortunately, Climate Central hired most of the scientists who were working on this map and have taken over generating it so the series can continue. In 2025, there were 23 of these disasters in the US, mostly from severe weather, since we did not have any landfalling hurricanes. The others were from drought and wildfires. You can visit the associated website and see more information about these disasters at https:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/climate-services\/billion-dollar-disasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in reading more about some of these disasters, you can check out this article<\/a> from ABC News as published by WSB radio.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The annual overview of the worst disasters in the US was formerly collected by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. While some people question its relevance, it does provide a decent overview of how much weather and climate impacted our country this past year. But with the downsizing of NOAA this past year, the billion-dollar-disaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29588,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586\/revisions\/29588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}