Hawaii’s devastating firestorm and the devastating effects of Hurricane Idalia’s water-driven storm surge contributed to the nation’s highest rate of $1 billion-plus weather-related disasters on record, and there are still four months left in what’s shaping up to be more of a calamity calendar.
On Monday, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that there had been 23 weather-related events in the U.S. this year with a cost of $1.0 billion or more through August, more than double the year-end total of 22 recorded in 2020.
In total, this year’s disasters have cost an estimated $57.7 billion and killed 253 people.
NOaa’s count does not include the costs of Tropical Storm Hilary, which caused damage in California and caused a severe drought in the South and Midwest, because those costs have yet to be added up, Adam Smith, an economist and applied climatologist at the (NOAA).
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