Days Between Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in the US
graph by Climate Central; slow reveal by Jenna Laib
(Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)
Type of Graph: bar graph
Visualization Source: Climate Central, “U.S. Billion-Dollar Disasters: 1980-2024.” Climate Central: July 16, 2025. Accessed at https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/billion-dollar-disasters-2025
Data Source: NOAA/NCEI, “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters.” National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), published January 2025. Accessed at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/
Potential Math Content: bar graphs, estimating values, comparing values, intervals, scale along the x-axis, billions, large numbers, inflation
Potential Content Connections: inflation, climate change
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