Executive Summary  The 2023: A historic year of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters | NOAA Climate.gov  indicates the increasingly detrimental costs of the growing occurrence of natural disasters as the total cost of U.S. billion-dollar disasters over the last 5 years (2019-2023) is $603.1 billion, with a 5-year annual cost average of $120.6 billion,  … Continue reading →