LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The United States saw 27 individual weather and climate disasters in 2024 with at least 1 billion U.S. dollars in damage, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
These disasters caused at least 568 direct or indirect fatalities, which is the eighth-highest for these billion-dollar disasters over the last 45 years.
