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Between 1980 and 2022, the NOAA reports the United States averaged 7.9 weather and climate disasters annually with losses surpassing $1 billion. That number has jumped significantly in the last five years, however, with an average of 17.8 of these events each year between 2018 and 2022. That average is even higher when looking at the last three years – 2020 to 2022 – in which there were 60 of these events; an average of 20 per year. In these three years, losses averaged $144.9 billion and deaths averaged 487.
In 2022, there were 18 weather or climate events where losses surpassed $1 billion, according to the NOAA. Overall, these events killed 474 people.
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Brittney Meredith-Miller
Brittney Meredith-Miller is assistant editor of PropertyCasualty360.com. She can be reached at [email protected].
