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  • Accumulated cyclone energy of North Atlantic hurricanes
  • Adoption and implementation of policies to reduce disaster risk
  • Annual Heat Wave Index in the United States
  • Average acres burned per wildfire in the United States
  • Death rate from natural disasters
  • Death rate from natural disasters
  • Deaths from earthquakes
  • Deaths from natural disasters as a share of total deaths
  • Deaths from natural disasters by type
  • Decadal average: Death rates from natural disasters
  • Decadal average: Number of deaths from natural disasters
  • Direct disaster economic loss
  • Direct disaster economic loss as a share of GDP
  • Direct economic loss attributed to disasters
  • Disaster risk reduction progress score
  • Drought severity index
  • Economic damage by natural disaster type
  • Fatality rates due to lightning in the US
  • Fatality rates in the US due to weather events
  • Frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes
  • Global damage costs from natural disasters
  • Global disaster losses as a share of GDP
  • Global economic losses from disasters as a share of GDP
  • Global injuries from natural disasters
  • Global natural disaster death rates
  • Global number affected by natural disasters
  • Global precipitation anomaly
  • Global reported natural disasters by type
  • Global weather disaster losses as a share of GDP
  • How many deaths does it take for a disaster in different continents to receive news coverage?
  • How many deaths does it take for a disaster to receive news coverage?
  • Hurricane landfalls in the United States
  • Intensity error
  • Largest confirmed impact craters on Earth by diameter
  • Near-Earth asteroids discovered over time
  • News coverage of disasters
  • News coverage of disasters, by continent
  • Number left homeless from natural disasters
  • Number of deaths from natural disasters
  • Number of deaths from natural disasters by type
  • Number of deaths from volcanic eruptions
  • Number of known significant earthquakes
  • Number of local governments that adopt disaster risk reduction strategies
  • Number of recorded natural disaster events
  • Number of significant volcanic eruptions
  • Number of wildfires in the United States
  • People displaced internally by natural disasters
  • Power Dissipation Index (PDI) of North Atlantic cyclones
  • Precipitation anomaly in the United States
  • Rate of deaths and missing persons due to natural disasters
  • Score of adoption and implementation of national strategies for managing disaster risk
  • Share of US land area that experienced extreme one-day precipitation
  • Share of US land area with unusually high annual precipitation
  • Share of US land area with unusually high summer temperatures
  • Share of US land area with unusually low winter temperatures
  • Share of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national strategies
  • Track error
  • Wildfire acres burned in the United States

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