Extreme Weather Events Cost the U.S. $145 Billion in 2021
from the National Centers for Environmental Information provides some more detail on the economic and human costs associated with the tragic mess that is the changing climate.The agency chronicled 20 weather events in the report, released Monday, that collectively cost the U.S. economy at least $145 billion dollars. Each of those climate or weather events individually led to losses of at least $1 billion.
Tropical storms had by far the largest economic impact in 2021, causing $78.5 billion in damage. Of that, $74 billion along came fromWinter storms followed their tropical counterparts, causing $24 billion in damage. Severe storms and wildfires cost the country $20.4 billion and $10.6 billion respectively. Theof 2021 was the drought and series of heat waves that rippled across the West, killing 229 over the course of the year.
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