The number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the U.S. has more than doubled in recent years, mostly due to hurricanes and wildfires that experts suspect are fueled in part by climate change.

Last year, 14 of these billion-dollar events killed at least 247 Americans. More info: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/02/06/wildfires-hurricanes-other-extreme-weather-cost-nation-lives-nearly-billion-damage-during/?utm_term=.35830f5f639b