Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.

Click the downloadable graphic: Billion-Dollar Disasters January - June 2025 The future of this database of the most costly U.S. weather and climate disasters was uncertain after the National Oceanic ...

During the past three months (June, July, and August 2025), the effects of human-induced climate change — mainly from burning coal, oil, and methane gas — were evident in most regions of the world, ...

This summer’s heat is likely to linger through fall with above-normal temperatures expected across the U.S. from September through November. This year is not an exception. It’s part of a longer ...

Twenty years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina became one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. Marking the 20-year anniversary, Climate Central used the Climate Shift Index: Ocean and Climate Shift ...

This Climate Matters analysis is based on open-access data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). See Methodology for details. More frequent and intense extreme heat — the ...

Table 3. Top ACIS stations with the highest number of days at or above a CSI of 2 during June 2025. We analyzed 191 Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) stations associated with U.S. cities. For ...

The entire planet is warming due to human-caused climate change, but the built environment further amplifies both average temperatures and extreme heat in cities. According to the U.S. Environmental ...

Read the full report: Climate change increasing pregnancy risks around the world due to extreme heat (2020-2024) Download the data: For 247 countries, territories, and dependencies and 940 cities ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Top 10 Hottest Years in the U.S. Global carbon emissions from burning coal, oil, and methane gas climbed to their highest levels ever in 2024. This heat-trapping ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between Daily Yonder and Climate Central. Climate Central scientists Jennifer Brady and Joseph Giguere contributed data reporting. Connie Allen sat at a ...

The U.S. experienced 24 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters from January through November 2024 — a total second only to the record 28 annual disasters set just last year. These 24 ...