US hit by 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters last year: NOAA

The United States was hit by 18 weather and climate disasters costing at least $1 billion during 2022, among the most that has occurred in one year. A Tuesday release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that last year tied with 2011 and 2017 for the third highest number of billion-dollar disasters in a calendar year, behind 2020 with 22 billion-dollar events and 2021 with 20. The eventsin 2022 killed at least 474 people and cost about $165 billion in