Every Season is Extreme Weather Season
From life-threatening heat to massive wildfires, increased tornado activity, and supercharged rainstorms, climate change is making extreme weather more frequent, more intense, more costly – and more deadly. Extreme weather affects Americans across the nation, particularly the most vulnerable among us: those without air conditioning, those who make their living working outside, and those whose homes aren’t equipped to withstand strong winds, heavy rain, and damaging flooding. Research shows a marked increase in heat waves, heavy downpours, floods, and other dangerous weather events over the last 50 years. Despite the mounting toll on Americans’ lives, the Trump administration rollbacks of federal climate and clean air protections makes more pollution, and thus more extreme weather emergencies, the official policy of the United States. The Extreme Weather Emergency Map illustrates the growing emergency right in Americans’ backyards: Dangerous climate crisis-driven weather events that upend people’s lives can happen anytime, anywhere.
To further highlight the increasingly dangerous situation; help make the connection between climate change and heat waves, wildfires, flooding, and other extreme weather; and help build support for solutions, CAC is holding the Extreme Weather Emergency Tour in July and August 2025. During the tour, people, local leaders, and business owners, and elected officials whose communities have been directly affected by extreme weather will have the chance to share their stories. The tour will bring together community members, local leaders, and elected officials from climate-impacted areas to share firsthand stories of hardship and resilience. At each stop, the tour will emphasize how Trump’s rollback of climate protections, such as attacks on critical disaster response agencies as FEMA and NOAA, are making extreme weather worse by weakening communities ability to prepare and respond.
Key
Tour Stop
Debris Flow
Drought
Flash Flood
Flood
Hail
Heavy Rain
Hurricane
Lake-Effect Snow
Lightning
Marine Lightning
Marine Thunderstorm Wind
Severe Storm
Thunderstorm Wind
Tornado
Tropical Storm
Wildfire
Winter Storm
The Extreme Weather Emergency Map displays extreme weather events since 2023 that have either cost a minimum of $1 million in damages or taken lives. Data for this map was compiled using the National Centers for Environmental Information Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI) database. Information for billion dollar disasters was compiled from the NCEI Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters 2023 and 2024 summaries. Additional information on weather events not included in the NCEI database were supplemented by news reports. Last updated on 07/18/2025.