The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

Last year was the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to new data from Climate Central. There were 23 such events in 2025, causing 276 fatalities ...

Climate change is turbocharging heat waves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events ...

Smoke choked the Los Angeles skyline in January 2025 as wildfires ravaged neighborhoods, sirens blared under urgent ...

Climate Central’s dataset, updated through last month, tracks 426 events that each caused at least $1 billion in damage between 1980 and 2025. Combined, these disasters have a total CPI-adjusted cost ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — You may remember that NOAA was the federal agency tracking this data, but they ceased to do it during 2025 when the Trump administration discontinued updates to the Billion-Dollar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was another catastrophic year for weather disasters in the United States. The LA wildfires in January 2025 ‒ at $61.2 billion, ...

Charred homes and burnt cars are pictured amid the rubble of the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates in Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 13, 2025. Credit - Agustin Paullier—Getty Images ...