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Description	English: Graph of number billion-dollar climate-related events in the United States, and annual costs of those events, based on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. Versions 10+ are updates through 2024. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series (can click on "Access Data") Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202050919/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series Versions 8 and 9 are updates through 2023. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series/US Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20240113044752/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series/US Version 6 is an update through 2022. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series (click "Access data") Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20221231055639/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series Version 4 is an update through 2021, with sources: Data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/archive-management-system/OAS/bin/prd/jquery/accession/download/209268 (choose bottom entry "209268.8.8.tar.gz" to download and unpackage the gz file) Nice graphic: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/calculating-cost-weather-and-climate-disasters Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20220111143455/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/calculating-cost-weather-and-climate-disasters Most XML code for Version 4 was made by the Column Chart and Horizontal Bar Chart spreadsheets at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Earlier versions were made with Inkscape. Version 2 is an update through end of 2020, with source: Contiguous U.S. ranked fifth warmest during 2020; Alaska experienced its coldest year since 2012 / 2020 Billion Dollar Disasters and Other Notable Extremes. NCEI.NOAA.gov. NOAA (January 2021). Archived from the original on 8 January 2021. Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20210108185719/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202012 Version 1 upload is based on data through September 2020, indicated by the "+" above 2020's bar in bar chart. access to source: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/ after clicking on "Download individual files for accession": https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/ PNG of NOAA graphic: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/4.4/data/0-data/Jan1980-Sept2020%20U.S.%20Billion-dollar%20disasters%20time-series%20(final).png 2020-12-12 archive of NOAA's PNG graphic: https://web.archive.org/web/20201212061514/https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0153/0209268/4.4/data/0-data/Jan1980-Sept2020%20U.S.%20Billion-dollar%20disasters%20time-series%20%28final%29.png Cover story: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/ 2020-12-10 archive of cover story: https://web.archive.org/web/20201210044128/https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/ Downloaded data listing is provided below.
Date	12 December 2020
Source	Own work
Author	RCraig09

Source data

Data through 2024.
Cost values for previous years change as successive years' data is added annually, presumably due to retroactive adjustments for inflation.

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Year _ Count _ Cost
1980 _ 3 _ 45.4
1981 _ 2 _ 3.5
1982 _ 3 _ 5.4
1983 _ 6 _ 36.3
1984 _ 2 _ 3.3
1985 _ 7 _ 22.5
1986 _ 3 _ 7.8
1987 _ 0 _ 0
1988 _ 1 _ 54.4
1989 _ 6 _ 40.3
1990 _ 4 _ 14.5
1991 _ 4 _ 19.6
1992 _ 7 _ 79.7
1993 _ 5 _ 65.7
1994 _ 6 _ 16.4
1995 _ 7 _ 35.5
1996 _ 5 _ 23.2
1997 _ 3 _ 15.1
1998 _ 11 _ 40.0
1999 _ 5 _ 24.4
2000 _ 5 _ 15.5
2001 _ 3 _ 21.8
2002 _ 6 _ 27.1
2003 _ 7 _ 38.3
2004 _ 6 _ 92.2
2005 _ 6 _ 267.0
2006 _ 8 _ 25.2
2007 _ 5 _ 18.8
2008 _ 12 _ 93.9
2009 _ 9 _ 19.8
2010 _ 7 _ 20.2
2011 _ 18 _ 97.9
2012 _ 11 _ 158.9
2013 _ 10 _ 32.1
2014 _ 10 _ 25.3
2015 _ 11 _ 30.9
2016 _ 15 _ 61.1
2017 _ 19 _ 395.7
2018 _ 16 _ 115.9
2019 _ 14 _ 55.4
2020 _ 22 _ 120.3
2021 _ 20 _ 164.2
2022 _ 18 _ 182.5
2023 _ 28 _ 95.1
2024 _ 27 _ 182.7

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:38, 3 February 2025	1,200 × 675 (7 KB)	RCraig09	Version 15: Update to include figures for 2024 that were revised by NOAA, probably during January
	06:47, 22 January 2025	1,200 × 675 (7 KB)	RCraig09	Version 14: Make left and right legends more explicit
	17:22, 27 December 2024	1,200 × 675 (7 KB)	RCraig09	Version 13: add mostly opaque background to legend text, so it's not "floating"
	19:25, 24 December 2024	1,200 × 675 (7 KB)	RCraig09	Version 12: Change dollars scale so line chart and bar chart are more evenly comparable, vertically
	07:20, 23 December 2024	1,200 × 675 (6 KB)	RCraig09	Version 11: remove id="5MA" that was found objectionable by W3.org SVG checker
	07:04, 23 December 2024	1,200 × 675 (6 KB)	RCraig09	Version 10: update to include 2024 data . . . add 5-year trailing average of annual costs . . . show annual costs as dots
	04:54, 13 January 2024	1,200 × 675 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 9: revise to include data newly changed on NOAA website (25 ---> 28 events . . . . and $81.0B ---> $92.9B)
	21:13, 1 January 2024	1,200 × 675 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 8: update to include 2023 data
	17:09, 15 January 2023	1,200 × 675 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 7: change shade of red (avoiding the "primary color" tendency that's apparently falling into disfavor)
	05:50, 31 December 2022	1,200 × 675 (4 KB)	RCraig09	Version 6: update to include data for 2022