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This graphic above shows the month-by-month accumulation of billion dollar disasters for each year on record. The value for a given year for a given month shows the total number of billion-dollar events that had occurred by that month in a given year. 2019 (thick red line) had the 4^th highest total number of events (tied with 2018, green), following the years 2017 (purple), 2011 (dark blue) and 2016 (orange). Other years appear in gray. Note that there is considerable overlap, and some years' traces are obscured.