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Topic: Billion-Dollar Disasters

In this aerial view, cars navigate through flooded streets after record rains fell in the area on April 13, 2023, in Hollywood, Florida. In Fort Lauderdale, this 1,000-year rain event smashed the previous one-day record of 14.59 inches of rainfall set on April 25,1979.

U.S. dominated by remarkable warmth so far in 2023

May 8, 2023

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In this aerial view, cars navigate through flooded streets after record rains fell in the area on April 13, 2023, in Hollywood, Florida. In Fort Lauderdale, this 1,000-year rain event smashed the previous one-day record of 14.59 inches of rainfall set on April 25,1979.

A person walks past a formerly sunken boat resting on a now-dry section of lakebed at Lake Mead on May 10, 2022.

Record drought gripped much of the U.S. in 2022

January 10, 2023

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A person walks past a formerly sunken boat resting on a now-dry section of lakebed at Lake Mead on May 10, 2022.

GOES-16 satellite image of Hurricane Ian as it was making landfall in Florida on September 28, 2022.

NOAA to speak on extreme events, disasters at AMS

January 4, 2023

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GOES-16 satellite image of Hurricane Ian as it was making landfall in Florida on September 28, 2022.

Aerial imagery from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey of damage in the Times Square district of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., after Category 4 Hurricane Ian struck the area.

Ian is 15th billion-dollar disaster this year so far

October 11, 2022

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Aerial imagery from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey of damage in the Times Square district of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., after Category 4 Hurricane Ian struck the area.

Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

NOAA tool now brings disaster risk, vulnerability down to community level

July 27, 2022

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Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

NOAA to demonstrate new hyperlocal disaster-mapping tool

July 25, 2022

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Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

June 2022: U.S. dominated by remarkable heat, dryness

July 11, 2022

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Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

Firefighter with axe with blazing fire in the background.

U.S. saw its 4th-warmest year on record, fueled by a record-warm December

January 10, 2022

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Firefighter with axe with blazing fire in the background.

(Left) Hurricane Ida making landfall in Louisiana, as seen by the GOES-16 satellite on August 29, 2021. (Right) Smoke plumes from numerous California wildfires, as seen from the GOES-17 satellite on August 23, 2021. Ida and the western wildfires were two of the U.S. weather and climate disasters in 2021 that each exceeded $1 billion in damages. A new NOAA tool now pinpoints the risk of natural disasters across the U.S. down to county level.

New NOAA tool pinpoints natural disaster risk down to county level

December 9, 2021

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(Left) Hurricane Ida making landfall in Louisiana, as seen by the GOES-16 satellite on August 29, 2021. (Right) Smoke plumes from numerous California wildfires, as seen from the GOES-17 satellite on August 23, 2021. Ida and the western wildfires were two of the U.S. weather and climate disasters in 2021 that each exceeded $1 billion in damages. A new NOAA tool now pinpoints the risk of natural disasters across the U.S. down to county level.

Wildland firefighters apply structure wrap to the base of a giant sequoia tree to protect it from the KNP Complex Wildfire, September 17, 2021.

U.S. hit with 18 billion-dollar disasters so far this year

October 8, 2021

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Wildland firefighters apply structure wrap to the base of a giant sequoia tree to protect it from the KNP Complex Wildfire, September 17, 2021.

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