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Some parts of the billion-dollar disaster tool are pretty colorful. It has a map of the U.S. with different icons — a thunder cloud for severe weather, a kind of purple funnel for a tornado. “ ...

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The disasters database, which will be archived but no longer updated beyond 2024, has allowed taxpayers, media and researchers to track the cost of natural disasters — spanning extreme events ...

[15] • Economic impacts: The cost of natural disasters has skyrocketed, with U.S. billion-dollar disasters increasing from an average of 3.3 per year in the 1980s to over 17 annually from 2014-2023.

Continued reconstruction in North Carolina following last year’s Hurricane Helene. As natural disasters become more severe and intense, recovery from such storms often tallies into the billions.