The United States tops the list of countries that suffer the most from weather disasters for many reasons, some related to geography and others to the behavior of immigrants. Many experts said the United States is affected by more severe, costly, diverse and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, and this translates into the number of deaths due to separate weather events as well as the overall cost of the events. Sea level rise.. a surprise about the main disadvantages of climate change (dialogue) NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information announced that the final cost of weather disasters in 2022 exceeded $1 billion, with 474 direct or indirect deaths. And the US agency said, in its final update to the Disaster Report 2022, that these deaths are the eighth most deaths related to weather disasters in the United States since 1980. According to climate.gov, in 2022 the United States witnessed about 18 separate weather disasters, coming third after 22 events in 2020 and 20 events in 2021. The total damages from the disasters in 2022 amounted to about $165.1 billion, with the costliest events being Hurricane Ian ($112.9 billion) and the western and central drought/heat wave ($22.1 billion).