From the devastating and deadly wildfires in Southern California to the one-two punch of climate change-fueled hurricanes slamming into Florida and the Southeast, natural disasters that have impacted the U.S. in the last year have been the costliest the nation has seen in nearly a century, according to a new report from AccuWeather.
The Santa Ana wind-fanned firestorms erased neighborhoods and claimed 27 lives, both young and old. Hurricanes Helene and Milton brought more than 40 trillion gallons of rain to the region, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people in North Carolina.
