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In 2025, the US suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days

A new analysis finds that in 2025 disasters in the U.S. took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been ...

Even Without Hurricanes, U.S. Disaster Costs Surpassed $100 Billion Last Year

A record-setting 21 thunderstorm events each caused at least $1 billion in damages, a sign that more people and property are ...
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Disaster experts call for an extreme weather safety board

Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly weather events. Eric Sorensen has felt for years that the country could ...
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USDA Launches New Round of Disaster Aid: What Producers Need to Know to Sign Up

USDA is launching the next phase of its Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP), aimed at farmers who suffered losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024. This new round — Stage 2 — was ...
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Here's what the government shutdown means for wildfires, weather and disaster response

The shutdown of the U.S. government has brought work determined by the Trump administration to be "nonessential" to a halt across the country as thousands of federal employees have been furloughed and ...

US averaged a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days in 2025, analysis shows

The time between disasters has also grown shorter. In the 1980s, the average gap between billion-dollar disasters was about ...