CAC Launches New Tool to Track Deadly and Costly Climate Disasters
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 23, 2025
CONTACT: Katie Valentine, kvalentine@cacampaign.org
With Extreme Weather Raging from Coast to Coast, the Climate Action Campaign Launches New Tool to Track Deadly and Costly Climate Disasters
The Extreme Weather Emergency Map Comes as the Trump Administration Shuts Down Storm Tracking and Emergency Services and Rolls Back Pollution Protections
WASHINGTON – Despite a deadly, devastating start to the summer, the Trump administration is marching forward with its proposed elimination of storm tracking systems and reporting; massive budget cuts to emergency preparedness and response; rollbacks of protections against climate-change-causing pollution; and gutting of programs designed to replace climate pollution with clean energy.
To illustrate the growing emergency playing out in Americans’ backyards, the Climate Action Campaign has launched the Extreme Weather Emergency Map, a resource illustrating how dangerous, climate-crisis-driven weather events that upend people’s lives and cost billions can happen anytime, anywhere.
Climate change is making extreme weather more frequent, more intense, more costly, and more deadly. Despite the mounting toll on Americans’ lives, the Trump administration is making climate denial the official policy of the United States. The administration’s rollbacks of federal climate and clean air protections will lead to more pollution, exacerbating climate change and climate-crisis-driven extreme weather. The Extreme Weather Emergency Map displays extreme weather events that occurred since 2023 and have either cost a minimum of $1 million in damages and/or taken lives.
“Extreme weather is not some distant threat, or a problem affecting people somewhere else in the world. It has become the daily reality for families across America," said Margie Alt, campaign director for CAC. "Extreme weather means children at summer camp swept away by flash floods, crops withering in the fields from too little – or too much – rain, and entire communities leveled by wildfires and more. As Americans suffer the consequences of the climate crisis, the Trump administration is charging ahead with policies that will make dangerous weather worse, benefiting fossil fuel interests while the rest of us pay the price.”
The map draws on data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information’s (NCEI) Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI) and Billion Dollar Weather Climate Disaster summary, and is supplemented by news reports from incidents not yet in the SWDI.
This month, CAC also kicked off the Extreme Weather Emergency Tour. The four-state tour is bringing together community members, local leaders, and elected officials from climate-impacted areas to share first-hand stories of hardship and resilience. At each stop, the tour will emphasize how Trump’s attacks on critical disaster response agencies such as FEMA and NOAA – as well as rollbacks to pollution limits and clean energy programs – are making extreme weather worse by weakening communities’ ability to prepare and respond and dismantling the standards that will prevent future problems and enable the country to move forward quickly and cost-effectively with solutions. The tour has already stopped in Philadelphia, PA and Traverse City, MI, and will follow along key cities across the country. Tour information can be found on the Extreme Weather Emergency map.
To view the map and learn more, visit: https://www.actonclimate.com/extreme-weather-map/.
About the Climate Action Campaign
Climate Action Campaign (CAC) is a vibrant coalition driving ambitious, durable, equitable federal action to tackle the climate crisis. By cutting carbon pollution and accelerating the transition to clean energy, we will improve public health and create a more resilient economy and a more sustainable future for all.
