Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US records

A three-paneled image showing a satellite photo of a hurricane, a house on fire, and flood rescue workers on a raft.

The first half of 2025 logged the most damaging extreme weather on record in terms of cost, even after accounting for inflation, data shows.

This is partly because of a handful of extraordinary events, such as the Los Angeles wildfires. But the number of natural disasters that struck this winter was also "exceptional," Paul Ullrich, a professor of regional climate modeling at the University of California, Davis, told Live Science.