US Climate disasters in 2022 responsible for 474 deaths and $165 billion in damages

By Zahra Hirji | Bloomberg

A massive hurricane, a historic drought, and 16 other major disasters across the US collectively racked up $165 billion in damages and killed at least 474 people in 2022, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration analysis published Tuesday.

NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information track the biggest of the big disasters, each one costing at least $1 billion in damage. 2022 was the nation’s third most expensive year for billion-dollar disasters by NOAA’s ranking, following 2017 ($373.2 billion) and 2005 ($253.5 billion).

Billion-dollar disasters are the new normal in the US and the rest of the world. That’s because people continue to move and build in risky areas —

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