Weather News Breaking Down The Cost Of Extreme Weather Events Caused By Climate Change

2025 Iowa Climate Statement: Climate change impacts insurance premiums

The 15th annual Iowa Climate Statement highlights the rising insurance costs for homeowners and farmers due to extreme weather events linked to climate change. Read More

Extreme weather caused record-breaking $126 billion in damage with devastation across US

This year has seen record-breaking damage caused by extreme weather events across the US with costs estimated to be as high as $126 billion. Disasters such as the Los Angeles wildfires at the ... Read More

Iowa climate report warns rising insurance costs are tied to extreme weather

Iowa scientists say climate-driven extreme weather is pushing property and crop insurance rates higher statewide, with costs expected to keep rising. Read More

Climate change is driving up insurance costs for Iowa homes, farms, scientists say

Nearly 180 Iowa university experts point to climate change as the cause of extreme weather events boosting insurance premiums across the state. Read More

Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US records

The first half of 2025 logged the most damaging extreme weather on record in terms of cost, even after accounting for inflation, data shows. This is partly because of a handful of extraordinary events ... Read More

Extreme weather events caused more than $100 billion in damage in first half of 2025, report finds

Extreme weather disasters cost more than ever before in the first half of 2025, according to a report from nonprofit group Climate Central. CBS News environmental correspondent David Schechter has ... Read More

Your home has a 1 in 4 chance of being at severe risk from extreme weather

Grist reports that 1 in 4 U.S. homes face severe climate risk, driving up insurance costs and impacting affordability amid extreme weather events. Read More

LA fires and 13 other disasters cost the US over $100 billion, estimates show

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ... Read More

In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes on Pace to Break a Record

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it. By Scott Dance The Trump administration this year ... Read More

Trump ‘retired’ a database tracking the most expensive weather disasters. Now it’s back — and finding over $100B in losses

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ... Read More

Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US records

Since 1980, tropical cyclones have caused more than $1.5 trillion of damage in the U.S. (inflation-adjusted) — more than all other types of extreme events combined — and have caused 7,211 deaths, more ... Read More