File:20201211 Billion dollar events related to climate change - U.S. -en.svg

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English: Graph of number billion-dollar climate-related events in the United States, and annual costs of those events, based on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
  • Data for Version 16 (data through 2025):
  • Relevant news event: "(Noaa) will no longer track the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change." (The Guardian source, May 2025) and archive thereof)
  • Versions 10+ are updates through 2024.
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202050919/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series
  • Versions 8 and 9 are updates through 2023.
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20240113044752/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series/US
  • Version 6 is an update through 2022.
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20221231055639/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series
  • Version 4 is an update through 2021, with sources:
Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20220111143455/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/calculating-cost-weather-and-climate-disasters
  • Most XML code for Version 4 was made by the Column Chart and Horizontal Bar Chart spreadsheets at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Earlier versions were made with Inkscape.
  • Version 2 is an update through end of 2020, with source:
  • Version 1 upload is based on data through September 2020, indicated by the "+" above 2020's bar in bar chart.


  • Downloaded data listing is provided below.
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Author RCraig09

Source data

Data through 2024.
Cost values for previous years change as successive years' data is added annually, presumably due to retroactive adjustments for inflation.

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Year _ Count _ Cost
1980 _ 3 _ 45.4
1981 _ 2 _ 3.5
1982 _ 3 _ 5.4
1983 _ 6 _ 36.3
1984 _ 2 _ 3.3
1985 _ 7 _ 22.5
1986 _ 3 _ 7.8
1987 _ 0 _ 0
1988 _ 1 _ 54.4
1989 _ 6 _ 40.3
1990 _ 4 _ 14.5
1991 _ 4 _ 19.6
1992 _ 7 _ 79.7
1993 _ 5 _ 65.7
1994 _ 6 _ 16.4
1995 _ 7 _ 35.5
1996 _ 5 _ 23.2
1997 _ 3 _ 15.1
1998 _ 11 _ 40.0
1999 _ 5 _ 24.4
2000 _ 5 _ 15.5
2001 _ 3 _ 21.8
2002 _ 6 _ 27.1
2003 _ 7 _ 38.3
2004 _ 6 _ 92.2
2005 _ 6 _ 267.0
2006 _ 8 _ 25.2
2007 _ 5 _ 18.8
2008 _ 12 _ 93.9
2009 _ 9 _ 19.8
2010 _ 7 _ 20.2
2011 _ 18 _ 97.9
2012 _ 11 _ 158.9
2013 _ 10 _ 32.1
2014 _ 10 _ 25.3
2015 _ 11 _ 30.9
2016 _ 15 _ 61.1
2017 _ 19 _ 395.7
2018 _ 16 _ 115.9
2019 _ 14 _ 55.4
2020 _ 22 _ 120.3
2021 _ 20 _ 164.2
2022 _ 18 _ 182.5
2023 _ 28 _ 95.1
2024 _ 27 _ 182.7


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Graph of number billion-dollar climate-related events in the United States, and annual costs of those events, based on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information

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current06:17, 9 January 2026Thumbnail for version as of 06:17, 9 January 20261,200 × 675 (7 KB)RCraig09Version 17: update numbers for 2005 and 2017 at top of chart (for inflation adjustment) . . . misc formal changes
21:44, 8 January 2026Thumbnail for version as of 21:44, 8 January 20261,200 × 675 (7 KB)RCraig09Version 16: update to include data for 2025 . . . Climate Central for data since Trump canceled NOAA data; Grist article for raw number of disasters
11:38, 3 February 2025Thumbnail for version as of 11:38, 3 February 20251,200 × 675 (7 KB)RCraig09Version 15: Update to include figures for 2024 that were revised by NOAA, probably during January
06:47, 22 January 2025Thumbnail for version as of 06:47, 22 January 20251,200 × 675 (7 KB)RCraig09Version 14: Make left and right legends more explicit
17:22, 27 December 2024Thumbnail for version as of 17:22, 27 December 20241,200 × 675 (7 KB)RCraig09Version 13: add mostly opaque background to legend text, so it's not "floating"
19:25, 24 December 2024Thumbnail for version as of 19:25, 24 December 20241,200 × 675 (7 KB)RCraig09Version 12: Change dollars scale so line chart and bar chart are more evenly comparable, vertically
07:20, 23 December 2024Thumbnail for version as of 07:20, 23 December 20241,200 × 675 (6 KB)RCraig09Version 11: remove id="5MA" that was found objectionable by W3.org SVG checker
07:04, 23 December 2024Thumbnail for version as of 07:04, 23 December 20241,200 × 675 (6 KB)RCraig09Version 10: update to include 2024 data . . . add 5-year trailing average of annual costs . . . show annual costs as dots
04:54, 13 January 2024Thumbnail for version as of 04:54, 13 January 20241,200 × 675 (4 KB)RCraig09Version 9: revise to include data newly changed on NOAA website (25 ---> 28 events . . . . and $81.0B ---> $92.9B)
21:13, 1 January 2024Thumbnail for version as of 21:13, 1 January 20241,200 × 675 (4 KB)RCraig09Version 8: update to include 2023 data
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