Overview
- Climate Central reports 14 billion-dollar disasters from January to June 2025 causing $101.4 billion in inflation-adjusted direct damages.
- January’s Los Angeles wildfires account for about $61 billion, making them the costliest U.S. wildfire on record.
- The nonprofit rebuilt the database under former NOAA program lead Adam Smith, using the same public and private data sources and methodology focused on direct losses.
- NOAA ended the product in May citing uncertainty, staff time, and roughly $300,000 in annual costs, and it acknowledged the dataset’s continuation with non-federal funding.
- A Senate Democratic bill to require twice-yearly NOAA updates remains in committee in a Republican-controlled Senate, while Climate Central plans to add $100 million–plus events and notes a quieter Atlantic hurricane season so far.