08-05-2025
NOAA database will stop tracking most expensive disasters
One of NOAA's most comprehensive climate disaster information portals will no longer be updated, according to an agency notice posted atop the Billion-Dollar Disasters webpage.
The decision to abandon the website is 'in alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes,' the notice states. 'All past reports, spanning 1980-2024, and their underlying data remain authoritative, archived and available via the landing page.'
'The NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters product will be retired, with no updates beyond calendar year 2024,' the agency said in its notice.
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In a Bluesky post, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called the move to discontinue updating the site 'anti-science, anti-safety and anti-American.'
