Behind the news: Weather disasters of 2025 show dangers growing as climate change advances Trees sway in high winds as the Eaton Fire burns structures on January 8 in Altadena, California.

Near the halfway mark of 2023, photos highlight the extreme weather that battered Americans across the nation these last six months.

There have been 23 weather extreme events in America that cost at least $1 billion this year through August, breaking the record of 22 set in 2020.

Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, a new U.N. report found.

US billion-dollar disasters by year The number of weather and climate disasters exceeding $1 billion in damage each has grow in recent decades, with costs adjusted for inflation.

Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165 billion ...

Weather Billion-dollar disasters are on the rise in the U.S. Extreme weather events in the United States are becoming more frequent, more intense, and increasingly costly.

Lawmakers on Wednesday used the government’s response to a growing string of weather disasters to debate the future of U.S. weather forecasting — including whether the government should rely ...