U.S. disaster costs doubled in 2020. The $95 billion in damage came in a year marked by a record number of named Atlantic storms, along with California’s largest recorded wildfires. That’s almost double the amount in 2019 and the third-highest losses since 2010. Last year’s wildfires stood out not just because of the numbers of acres burned or houses destroyed, but also because so much of that damage was outside of California. Some 4,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in Oregon alone. The connections of all of this to climate change have been covered in other posts.
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