September is National Emergency Preparedness Month
U.S. sets record for billion-dollar disasters in 2023
Are you ready and prepared for the next natural disaster or emergency? Do you have all your insurance needs met?
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As of September, the United States has already set an unfortunate record with 23 billion-dollar-plus weather and climate disasters happening in 2023, according to the NOAA, with over a quarter of the year still to come.
While the natural disasters we’re most likely to hear about in the news include hurricanes – like Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall in Florida on Aug. 29 – or devastating wildfires – like the Hawaii Fire Storm, which caused $5.5 billion in damage on the island of Maui in early August – a great deal of climate-related damage is caused by wind, flooding and hail from severe storms.
To put the 23 billion-dollar natural disasters that have occurred in 2023 so far into perspective, from 1980 to 2022, the national average was 8.1 billion-dollar events per year (CPI-adjusted). Photo: Creativa Images/Adobe StockS
