The U.S. saw more than $101 billion in losses from severe storms and fires in the first half of 2025, setting a record.

That’s according to a database of billion-dollar disasters that a nonprofit has relaunched since the Trump administration formally abandoned work on it in May.

In a new analysis published Wednesday, scientists tallied damage from severe weather events through June, which has become the costliest such period in 45 years of records. The analysis, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ran for more than a decade, has been picked up by the nonprofit Climate Central.

“The rise in damages relates to human activity,” said Adam Smith, the former NOAA scientist now managing the disaster database for the group. “Whether it’s the amplification of climate change

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