Since 1980, the U.S. has had nearly 400 weather disasters that resulted in losses of $1 billion or more — 20 have occurred this year. Learn more here.

When Americans are killed in plane crashes or train accidents, an independent board steps in to investigate what went wrong and how to avoid the same mistakes again. No such process exists after ...

Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly weather events. Eric Sorensen has felt for years that the country could better ...

The U.S. faced 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2025, totaling $101.4 billion in damages, according to data from Climate Central. January's Los Angeles ...

Climate Central’s dataset, updated through last month, tracks 426 events that each caused at least $1 billion in damage between 1980 and 2025. Combined, these disasters have a total CPI-adjusted cost ...

It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, the costliest fire outbreak in US history ‒ helped push the nation's ...

WASHINGTON – Our ability to observe and predict severe weather events and other disasters has improved markedly over recent decades, yet this progress does not always translate into similar advances ...