About this episode

This episode discusses the increasing frequency and cost of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the US and their implications for businesses and communities.

In this episode of the All Things Sustainable podcast, we're exploring how billion-dollar scale extreme weather and climate disasters in the US are growing in frequency an d cos t — and what that means for businesses , communities and disaster recovery efforts. T he US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) previously deve loped and published the billion-dollar disaster report and its related historical database. In 2025, the agency discontinued the research and Climate Central picked up the baton for gathering the data and publishing related research. Climate Central is a nonprofit made up of climate scientists and communicators, including some former NOAA staff. In March 2026, the organization published the latest report tallying US weather and climate events that caused at least $1 billion in damages . In the episode, we speak to project lead Adam Smith, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at Climate Central. He explains how the landscape for climate research is evolving in the US and what the business community can take away from past weather and climate disasters. " We know that extreme events will continue to happen and we need to learn from them ," Adam says…

People in this episode

Guest: Adam Smith

Topics covered

• climate disasters
• business impact
• disaster recovery
• climate research
• extreme weather

Keywords

• billion-dollar disasters
• climate change
• extreme weather
• disaster recovery
• NOAA
• Climate Central

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate Central

Places: US

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