Overview
- Fourteen separate billion‑dollar disasters were identified from January through June 2025, totaling $101.4 billion despite a relatively quiet Atlantic hurricane season.
- January’s Los Angeles wildfires caused about $61.2 billion in damage, making them the costliest wildfire event on record in the United States.
- NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information stopped updating the federal database in May, and the agency said it welcomes the dataset finding non‑taxpayer funding as Congress weighs but has not advanced a restoration bill.
- The revived database continues to serve insurers, policymakers, and researchers, with long‑term data showing billion‑dollar events rising from about three per year in the 1980s to roughly 19–24 per year recently.
- Climate Central says it is using the same public and private data sources as NOAA and plans to expand coverage to events causing at least $100 million in losses with regular updates.