More than 2,000 natural disasters have been declared across the United States in the last 70 years.
As hurricane season nears and states ramp up for wild weather-prone summers, some states across the U.S. have to manage more expensive natural disasters than others. Insurance company Quote Wizard talked about the findings of a recent report on natural disasters. According to KXAN, Nick Vinzant with Quote Wizard said, “We looked at natural disasters and how many billion-dollar natural disasters have happened over the last 40 years. And what we found is that natural disasters have increased by 163 percent nationwide over the last 20 years.” According to World Atlas, more than 2,000 natural disasters have been declared across the U.S. in the last 70 years, and some states deal with multi-billion dollar damages from those disasters. In 2020 alone, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) reported 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the country. Here are five states that have seen some of the most expensive natural disasters: Texas In the Quote Wizard report, the state of Texas was discovered to have the most natural disasters in the U.S. “$137 billion plus natural disasters in the last 40 years,” Vinzant said, “And it’s not even really close.
