“This data highlights how we’re now running major disaster operations nearly continually throughout the year as our climate changes and extreme weather increases,” said Kieserman.
For example, in 20 during the same time frame, the Red Cross responded to about 30 disasters, only a third of what occurred over the last 100 days. Kieserman stated this time of year - November to February - used to be relatively quiet when it came to major disasters in the U.S. “In the 1980s, we had an average of three billion-dollar disasters each year, while over the past five years the country has seen a 6-fold increase and now averages 18 of them annually.” “We use the phrase 'acute-to-chronic” to describe how the frequency of big disasters has changed so dramatically in the United States over the past 40 years,” reports Brad Kieserman, vice president, Disaster Operations and Logistics for the Red Cross. Over the past 100 days, the American Red Cross has responded to more than 80 separate disasters, some accelerated by the effects of the climate crisis.
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