However, the Environmental Protection Agency has outlined the main cause of the recent increase in natural disasters ...

[15] • Economic impacts: The cost of natural disasters has skyrocketed, with U.S. billion-dollar disasters increasing from an average of 3.3 per year in the 1980s to over 17 annually from 2014-2023.

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them.

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Continued reconstruction in North Carolina following last year’s Hurricane Helene. As natural disasters become more severe and intense, recovery from such storms often tallies into the billions.

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