The first nine months of 2021 saw the largest number of billion-dollar disasters in a calendar year so far, with 2021 on-pace for second behind 2020, per the report.
Weather and climate disasters in 2021 killed 538 people in the U.S. and cost over $100 billion, according to aFrom January through the end of September, the U.S. has experienced 18 weather and climate disasters that each cost more than $1 billion, per the report.
Additionally, 538 people have died from the disasters, which is more than twice the number of deaths from all billion-dollar disasters that occurred in 2020, per the report.The disasters include four tropical cyclones, two flooding events, one combined drought and heat wave, one wildfire event, and one combined winter storm and cold wave.leads as the year's most expensive disaster to date.
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