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The damage toll from this year's wild weather keeps growing. A June tornado outbreak and the wildfires that have plagued the Southwest were added to the year's list of U.S. billion-dollar weather disasters, bumping the 2011 total to a record 12, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Earlier this year, Hurricane Irene had already put 2011 in first place by becoming the tenth billion-dollar weather disaster of the year, passing the $9-billion weather disasters of 2008.

These costly disasters don't hit the country evenly. Since 1980, wild weather has been costliest in the South. Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina have had 33-to-42 billion-dollar weather disasters, according to NOAA.