There isn’t anywhere in the United States that has been completely untouched by climate change. In fact, according to the NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the U.S. saw two exceptionally busy years for catastrophic weather events in 2020 and 2021, and with the way these statistics are trending, it appears these disastrous events may be our new normal.
In 2020, a record was set for billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in a calendar year with 22 events. While 2021 comes in second with 20 billion-dollar events, what set it apart from previous years was the variety of disasters.
According to the NCEI, 2021 saw: