Austin (KXAN) – As temperatures continue to rise in our warm climate, the United States faces more extreme air events. These weather disasters have become more intense, unfortunately, more frequent.
Until June 2025, according to Gallagher Re, eight of the best 10 billion dollars occurred in the United States. Best 2 is a Palisades fire (an economic loss of $ 37 billion) and Eaton Fire (an economic loss of $ 28 billion). Each of these events happened in January.
CEUNTER abroad with a study indicating that between 1980 and 2024, the United States dealt with deserted $ 403 billion. These disasters include weather events such as floods, hurricanes, severe storms and forest fires.
The price of these catastrophic events? In dollars, 3 trillion dollars. In a loss of life, approximately 17,000.
Information comes from the national centers in NOAA for environmental information. NCEI stops the weather and climate updates updates one billion dollars. The archived information will remain, but there will be no additional data move forward. This means that the last Hill Country floods will not be added to the database, at least not now.
The reasons provided include advanced priorities, legal states, and employment changes. These reasons come from noaa.
The database also provides information showing the average time between disasters that decreased from 82 days in the eighties to less than 20 days in the past ten years. What this does is to put pressure on those available resources to respond and recover.
According to the central climate, the database draws the image of the famous climate -related disasters. The end can lead to a greater economic increase and a loss of life.
The database told us that in 2024, 27 billion dollars claimed 568 life disasters at an additional price of 182.7 trillion dollars.
The study conducted by the central climate dismantled the state of information according to the state. The number one in the list is Texas. Between 1980 and 2024, our state suffered from $ 190 billion. Sixty -six percent of these disasters were severe storms.
Texas ranked second in the total cost of these disasters by billions of dollars, with total losses of $ 436 billion. In terms of those dollars, 57 % of those disasters came one billion dollars of tropical hurricanes, including Hurricane Harvey.
What many climate and weather experts agree is that the loss of the database may make it difficult for government agencies to prepare, respond and protect it. The valuable information can be found elsewhere, perhaps by insurance companies, because this information is valuable to them as it is for all of us.
Of course, he will tell the time.