While catastrophic fires burn across the bone-dry Texas plains and other parts of the country are inundated with rain and flooding, the U.S. is beginning to count the cost of months of unprecedented weather extremes. The damage estimates continue to mount with nine $1 billion weather disasters so far this year. If prior natural disasters are any indication, insurance property disputes will be sure to follow claims filed from the damage.
In a statement to USA Today, National Weather Service Director Jack Hayes expressed, “The nation is increasing vulnerable to extreme weather.” The year has been plagued by tornadoes, floods, droughts and a number of wild-fires. Hurricane season has just started with two storms already doing damage to the United States on the East Coast and in the South. The insurance firm Munich Re said the number of natural disasters in the first six months of the year is about double the average of the 1990s.
