Global warming continues to increase the cost of recovering from natural disasters in the United States. States specifically vulnerable to these disasters are actually states that have been most attractive to move it, which further increases the cost from these disaster prone areas.

Source: https://usafacts.org/articles/are-the-number-of-major-natural-disasters-increasing/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Posted by AtlasandEconomy

16 comments

  2. Makes sense since they are all on a coast. Pollution is making the weather more unstable. Things are way more expensive this year than previous

  3. The cost of everything is increasing, especially building. Why would disaster relief be exempt?

    Edit: Also, interesting they have to choose a year before global warming was even a buzzword to start. If they looked at the last ten years, or even twenty, the wildfires in California (not a symptom of global warming) dwarf all other natural disasters combined.

  4. It would be interesting to see this per capita. Louisiana would likely be high on the list given that the three states it is colored to match are the three most populous states in the US.

  5. Hopefully Texas gets buried or drowned soon and the world will become a better place.

  8. Looks like the data is thru Sept 2024. Curious if CA would jump in the top 3 with their recent wildfires.

  9. Should let DOGE know that there’s a 1T saving each year to be had

  10. Costs increasing with inflation increasing?

    /Pikachu surprise face

  11. Don’t show this to doge. They might want to eliminate costs

  12. I’m not calling a bullshit on this but I am questioning what defines a natural disaster. I mean half of Idaho burns every single year. Maybe it’s all just forest and that keeps the cost down but I mean, every summer is a natural disaster.

    Meanwhile, NY sees a decent hurricane or tropical storm once a decade. No idea what the other disasters are. Fires are rare, significant fires are even more rare. Earthquakes don’t happen (in any appreciable measure), floods only happen during said tropical storms, and snow melts?

    I guess the value of coastal NY Jack’s up the values?

    Very confused on the data.

  14. Climate change didn’t cause the fires in California poor forest management did

  15. This doesn’t show an increase, just the total spent over that particular time frame.

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