Worsening disasters, weather and agriculture impacts. What's the record for billion-dollar disasters in a year? The record is 22, set in 2020, according to NOAA data. There were 20 in 2021.

There have been a whopping 99 billion-dollar weather events since 2020, 39 of them in the past year and a half alone. And according to scientific studies, such extreme weather events, including ...

GENEVA — Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports. But these ...

The seven disasters are the second most on record for the first four months of the year, even adjusted for inflation, NOAA said.

A popular database that tracked the nation's growing number of billion-dollar disasters is going away, in another of the ongoing changes at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ...

NOAA announced that the billion-dollar weather and climate disasters database will be retired. This directive came from the White House.

After two years of frequent and costly weather disasters, the United States might make it to the end of this year with significantly fewer costly storms. To find every billion-dollar weather ...

Americans may live with hurricanes on the coasts, blizzards in the North, and wildfires in the West. But one natural disaster ...

Behind the news: Weather disasters of 2025 show dangers growing as climate change advances Trees sway in high winds as the Eaton Fire burns structures on January 8 in Altadena, California.

Earth had another severe year for billion-dollar weather-related natural disasters in 2017, with 29. This is the sixth-largest number on record going back to 1990.