Billion-Dollar Disasters Doubled From First To Second Decade Of The 21st Century

  Thursday, January 9th, 2020 Source: The Post and Courier

Hurricanes remain the most expensive natural disaster — even when compared to the massive floods, powerful tornadoes, drought, wildfires and other catastrophes plaguing the Untied States.

And the costs keep going up at a rate dire enough that meteorologists are starting to incorporate the potential expense in their forecasts.

In 2019, 14 weather and climate disasters cost the country more than $1 billion each, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Centers for Environmental Information. Hurricane Dorian, which brushed South Carolina in September, was one of them.

Three other of the disasters were storms with tornadoes that swept at least partly through the state.

The total cost of all the disasters was $45 billion. The most expensive was the series of floods along the Mississippi River and tributaries, which the centers counted as three disasters.

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