As of Oct. 8, 2021, there have been 18 weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each to affect the United States. In total, these have also caused 538 deaths. Learn more: COP26 COP26Glasgow ClimateTalks
The National Centers for Environmental Information is the Nation's Scorekeeper in terms of addressing severe weather and climate events in their historical perspective. As part of its responsibility of monitoring and assessing the climate, NCEI tracks and evaluates climate events in the U.S. and globally that have great economic and societal impacts. NCEI is frequently called upon to provide summaries of global and U.S.
It is also known that the uncertainty of loss estimates differ by disaster event type reflecting the quality and completeness of the data sources used in our loss estimation. In 2019, six of the fourteen billion-dollar events have higher potential uncertainty values around the loss estimates due to less coverage of insured assets and data latency. The remaining eight events have lower potential uncertainty surrounding their estimate due to more complete insurance coverage and data availability.
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