U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2025

This report reviews the costliest weather and climate disasters in 2025 and places them within the longer-term record of U.S. billion-dollar disasters since 1980. It highlights that 2025 saw 23 separate disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages, making it the third-highest annual count on record, behind only 2023 and 2024. The report also examines the overall economic toll and human impacts of these events.

The report finds that the 23 billion-dollar disasters in 2025 caused about $115 billion in direct losses and 276 direct and indirect deaths. Beyond documenting the year’s most expensive events, it shows that costly disasters are part of a broader upward trend driven by a combination of increasing exposure, growing vulnerability, and climate change, all of which are making weather- and climate-related disasters more damaging and deadly over time.