2020 had a record 22 billion-dollar weather disasters, according to NOAA
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BY: LEIGHTON SCHNEIDER, ABC NEWS
(NEW YORK) There were 22 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2020, according to a new analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration.
The total damages from the 22 disasters totaled approximately $95 billion and killed at least 262 people, according to NOAA.
Last year, there were a record number of hurricanes named in the Atlantic, with a record 12 making landfall in the Southeast. Seven of those cyclones caused damage exceeding one billion dollars, which NOAA says is a record since it started keeping track of billion-dollar damages in 1980.