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Month-by-month accumulation of estimated costs of each year's billion-dollar disasters, with colored lines showing 2020 (red) and the previous top-5 costliest years. Other years are light gray. By summer, 2020 had climbed into the top 5 costliest years on record, and it finished the year in fourth place. NOAA image by NCEI.