The first half of this year saw the costliest weather disasters ever recorded, with damages totaling more than $101 billion across the U.S., according to an analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit research group Climate Central.
That was information the public may have missed after the Trump administration stopped updating a NOAA natural disaster information portal that tracked weather events totaling more than $1 billion in damages.
Climate Central has now stepped in to revive the Billion-Dollar Disasters webpage, restoring continued access to a widely used dataset for understanding the costs of extreme weather and climate change.
Their latest analysis found 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first six months of 2025. The January wildfires in Los Angeles were the costliest event this year, with losses exceeding $60 billion.
