Record-breaking costs for weather-related disasters were recorded in the first half of this year

KANIKA SINGH RATHORE,

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Financial losses from weather and climate disasters in the United States will break all records in the first half of 2025.

There were 14 separate weather-related disasters between January and June that caused at least $1 billion in damage, including the Southern California wildfires that cost $60 billion and destroyed entire neighborhoods.

The fire was the costliest wildfire disaster ever and the costliest US disaster of the year so far. Other $1 billion events included a deadly tornado outbreak across Central America and a tornado in Texas hailstones the size of grapes,

Overall, the disasters resulted in 174 deaths and damages totaling $101 billion – or nearly as much. New York City budget in 2022,

The dataset does not include devastating floods that hit the Texas Hill Country in July, which killed 135 people, including 27 young girls at a Christian summer camp.

A woman and her niece search through the remains of their home after January's Eaton fire in Pasadena, California. The fire was the costliest wildfire on record, resulting in more than $60 billion in damages

A woman and her niece search through the remains of their home after January’s Eaton fire in Pasadena, California. The fire was the costliest wildfire on record, resulting in more than $60 billion in damages ,getty images,

tracker arrives Climate Central, a nonprofit that compiles climate dataIts purpose is to provide important information that is used by the insurance industry and researchers to plan for potential future losses.

This tracking was done by the federal government for almost 40 years National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationBefore being shut down under President Donald Trump earlier this year.

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“This dataset was too important to stop being updated,” said Adam Smith, senior climate impacts scientist at Climate Central. Independent,

“Billions of dollars of disaster analysis are critical to demonstrating the economic impact of extreme weather and climate events and helping to communicate the real-world consequences of climate change to communities, policymakers, and the public,” he said.

In the 1980s the United States experienced disasters worth an average of three billion dollars each year. Now about 20 occur each year – and no state has escaped a disaster worth at least a billion dollars.

A man wades through floodwaters with his dog outside his home in Paducah, Kentucky last April. Severe storms in the winter and spring caused major flooding in the state and throughout Central America

A man wades through floodwaters with his dog outside his home in Paducah, Kentucky last April. Severe storms in the winter and spring caused major flooding in the state and throughout Central America ,getty images,

NOAA reported Weather and climate disaster events worth $27 billion In 2024, with 568 deaths and total cost $182.7 billion.

Since data began being collected 45 years ago, there have been 417 billion disasters in the US, causing 17,000 deaths and costing $3.1 trillion.

Scientists say that this is due to the climate crisis caused by increasing carbon emissions. Warming global temperatures are causing weather in the US and around the world to become more extreme and erratic, a pattern that is expected to worsen in the future.

Although it has been a quiet year so far on the Atlantic hurricane front, Climate Central warned that assessments are still pending from the severe storms and flooding that struck central and south-eastern parts of the country in May.

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