Global damage costs from natural disasters
Total economic cost of damages as a result of global natural disasters in any given year, measured in current US$. Includes those from drought, floods, extremeweather, extreme temperature, landslides, dry mass movements, wildfires, volcanic activity and earthquakes.
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- Accumulated cyclone energy of North Atlantic hurricanes
- Adoption and implementation of policies to reduce disaster risk
- Annual Heat Wave Index in the United States
- Average acres burned per wildfire in the United States
- Death rate from natural disastersIHME, age-standardized
- Death rate from natural disastersIHME, crude
- Death rate from natural disastersWHO
- Deaths from earthquakes
- Deaths from natural disasters as a share of total deaths
- Deaths from natural disasters by type
- Decadal average: Death rates from natural disasters
- Decadal average: Number of deaths from natural disasters
- Direct disaster economic loss
- Direct economic loss attributed to disasters
- Direct economic loss from disasters as a share of GDP
- Disaster risk reduction progress score
- Drought severity index
- Economic damage by natural disaster type
- Fatality rates due to lightning in the US
- Fatality rates in the US due to weather events
- Frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes
- Global injuries from natural disasters
- Global natural disaster death rates
- Global number affected by natural disasters
- Global precipitation anomaly
- Global reported natural disasters by type
- Global weather disaster losses as a share of GDP
- How many deaths does it take for a disaster in different continents to receive news coverage?
- How many deaths does it take for a disaster to receive news coverage?
- Hurricane landfalls in the United States
- Intensity error
- Largest confirmed impact craters on Earth by diameter
- Near-Earth asteroids discovered over time
- News coverage of disasters
- News coverage of disasters, by continent
- Number left homeless from natural disasters
- Number of deaths from natural disasters
- Number of deaths from natural disasters by type
- Number of deaths from volcanic eruptions
- Number of local governments that adopt disaster risk reduction strategies
- Number of recorded natural disaster events
- Number of significant volcanic eruptions
- Number of wildfires in the United States
- People displaced internally by natural disasters
- Power Dissipation Index (PDI) of North Atlantic cyclones
- Precipitation anomaly in the United States
- Rate of deaths and missing persons due to natural disasters
- Score of adoption and implementation of national strategies for managing disaster risk
- Share of US land area that experienced extreme one-day precipitation
- Share of US land area with unusually high annual precipitation
- Share of US land area with unusually high summer temperatures
- Share of US land area with unusually low winter temperatures
- Share of local governments that adopted and implemented local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national strategies
- Significant earthquakes per year
- Track error
- Wildfire acres burned in the United States