The federal government used to keep track of extreme weather disasters. Now it’s up to a nonprofit

A home burns during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, California on January 8, 2025. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May , has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at the new site, the database shows that the first six months of 2025 have been the most expensive first six months of any year since 1980.

The Billion-Dollar Database tracks the financial costs of property and other infrastructure destroyed by extreme weather disasters in the United States, focusing on events that caused $1 billion or more in damages. So far, 2025 has racked up $101.4 billion in such losses. The climate research nonprofit Climate Cent