Thank you! It seems these data are mostly counted in dollars of damage or dollars of relief, which is a proxy for the severity. Would it be correct to say the

Thank you! It seems these data are mostly counted in dollars of damage or dollars of relief, which is a proxy for the severity. Would it be correct to say there is still some question about whether dollars are a good measure of severity? EDIT: As I am browsing the data, it's hard to disentangle actual weather events from things like lava, fires, unsound building decisions, and just the politics of money moving around.