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Stacy Morford, Environment + Climate Editor

18 huge, billion-dollar disasters: Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record

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Several areas were hit with 1,000-year floods in 2022. Leandro Lozada/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. weather disasters are getting costlier as more people move into vulnerable areas and climate change raises the risks of extreme heat and rainfall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned as it released its annual billion-dollar disasters report on Jan. 10, 2023.

Even with an average hurricane season, 2022 had the third-highest number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. since 1980.

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