NOAA to stop tracking cost of climate crisis-fueled disasters: ‘Major loss’
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) will no longer track the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires and more.
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For decades, it has tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including destructive hurricanes, hailstorms, droughts and freezes that have totaled trillions of dollars in damage.
The database uniquely pulls information from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (Fema) assistance data, insurance organizations, state agencies and more to estimate overall losses from individual disasters.
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One limitation is that the dataset estimated only the nation's most costly weather events.
The information is generally seen as standardized and unduplicable, given the agency's access to non-public data, and other private databases would be more limited in scope and likely not shared as widespread for proprietary reasons. Other datasets, however, also track death estimates from these disasters.
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