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2022’s Billion-Dollar Disasters: Climate Change Helped Make it US’s 3rd Most Expensive Year on Record

U.S. weather disasters are getting costlier as more people move into vulnerable areas and climate change raises the risks of extreme heat and rainfall, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials warned as they released their annual billion-dollar disasters report on Jan. 10, 2023.