The New Normal Is $115 Billion a Year

2025 clocks in as the third-most expensive year for billion-dollar weather disasters

There’s a temptation when talking about climate change to treat the numbers as abstract. Trillions of dollars. Dozens of disasters. Records broken again. The language starts to blur, and the human reality slips out of focus.

So let’s sharpen it.

According to Climate Central, 2025 ranked as the third-highest year on record for billion-dollar weather and cl…