Billion-dollar disasters have been sweeping across the US this year

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Billion-dollar disasters have been sweeping across the US this year
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Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.

Photo taken of a severely damaged home the day after a devastating derecho ripped through Houston, Texas. This storm was one of 11 separate billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far this year.Two severe weather events in May brought the number of billion-dollar disasters for the United States in 2024 up to nearly a dozen.

The destruction was extensive, and at least eight people lost their lives from the storm. The total of tornadoes across the U.S. in just March and April alone climbed to 450, which included the deadliest of the year — another EF-4 that claimed five lives in Greenfield, Iowa. from January through the end of May each resulted in economic losses of at least $1 billion for the nation; combined, the damage cost totaled more than $25 billion.

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