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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
• Atlantic hurricane and tropical cyclone track error
• Average acres burned per wildfire in the United States
• Death rate from natural disastersWHO
• Death rate from natural disastersIHME, age-standardized
• Death rate from natural disastersIHME, crude
• Death rates from natural disasters
• Deaths from earthquakes
• Deaths from natural disasters
• Deaths from tsunamis
• Deaths from volcanic eruptions
• Deaths rates from disasters vs. GDP per capita
• Decadal average: Death rates from natural disasters
• Decadal average: Economic damages from disasters as a share of GDP
• Decadal average: Number of deaths from natural disasters
• Direct disaster economic loss
• Direct economic loss attributed to disasters
• Direct economic loss from disasters as a share of GDP
• Disaster risk reduction progress score
• Drought severity index in the United States
• Economic damage by natural disaster type
• Economic damages from disasters as a share of GDP
• Fatality rates due to lightning in the US
• Fatality rates in the US due to weather events
• Global damage costs from natural disasters
• Global injuries from natural disasters
• Global natural disaster death rates
• Global number of reported disasters by size
• Global number of reported disasters by size per decade
• Global number of reported natural disasters by the number of deaths
• 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
• Near-Earth asteroids discovered over time
• News coverage of disasters, by continent
• Number of North Atlantic hurricanes
• Number of deaths from natural disastersIHME
• Number of deaths from natural disastersEM-DAT
• Number of deaths from natural disasters by type
• Number of local governments with disaster risk reduction strategies
• Number of recorded natural disaster events
• Number of significant earthquakes
• Number of significant volcanic eruptions
• Number of tsunamis
• Number of wildfires in the United States
• People affected by disasters vs. GDP per capita
• People affected by natural disasters
• People displaced internally by natural disasters
• People left homeless from natural disasters
• Precipitation anomalies
• Projected number of air conditioning units
• Rate of deaths and missing persons due to natural disasters
• Score of adoption and implementation of national strategies for managing disaster risk
• Seasonal temperature anomalies in the United States
• Share of US land that experienced extreme one-day precipitation
• Share of US land with unusually high annual precipitation
• Share of US land with unusually high summer temperatures
• Share of US land with unusually low winter temperatures
• Share of deaths from natural disasters
• Share of disaster events with missing data
• Share of households with air conditioning
• Share of local governments that implemented local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national strategies
• Spending on commercial weather and climate forecasting and information services
• Wildfire acres burned in the United States