Extreme disasters costing more but killing fewer While the average cost isn't changing much, the most costly disasters are rising.

Extreme heat is far deadlier than other natural disasters, but it’s not one that’s eligible for assistance from FEMA.

The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are some of the natural disasters that have contributed to global ...

Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately.

Critics in the past year called for more transparency and vetting of the procedures used to estimate billion-dollar disasters. But that’s not going to happen, because NOAA in May 2025 stopped ...

And after disasters, a 2018 analysis concluded, federal relief appears to be widening disparities rather than helping communities return to the status quo. As climate change worsens, it’s fueling more ...

Officials believe the increase in natural disasters is due to the rise in climate change and extreme weather events.

Why more disasters are occurring The rise in natural disasters stems from several interconnected factors: • Climate change: Human-induced warming creates conditions favoring extreme weather events.

Nature-based solutions are key to protecting people and property from extreme weather, and we need a clear path forward.

The number of deadly natural disasters has quintupled over the past five decades. That’s five times the hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, droughts and other extreme weather events than seen ...

(CNN) — Extreme heat is far deadlier than other natural disasters, killing on average more than twice as many people each year as hurricanes and tornadoes combined, according to data tracked by ...