Weather News Trump Admin Ends Extreme Weather Database That Has Tracked Cost Of Disasters Since 1980

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 — and found the most expensive half-year on record. Read More

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.

Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes. Read More

A tool tracking billion-dollar disasters is back after the Trump administration retired it

Wisconsin saw $1.1 billion in severe storm damage in early 2025 — part of the more than $5 billion in such damage since 2021. Read More

U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters database axed in May, now saved

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) comprehensive Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, which has, since 1980, track ... 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. Read More

What canceled climate data would have shown: The costliest 6 months of weather disasters on record

The Trump administration cut a NOAA program that had tracked weather events that caused at least $1 billion in damage. A nonprofit organization has redeveloped the database. Read More

The weather disaster database that Trump killed has a new home

Filling in for missing federal data, a new public database shows billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on the rise. Read More