March 26, 2025
Another above-average hurricane season will threaten the Atlantic this year, with as many as six storms affecting the U.S., AccuWeather Inc. said. Between 13 and 18 storms will at least reach tropical storm strength, and seven to 10 of those …
March 24, 2025
Nearly one-in-seven U.S. homes are uninsured, and 11.3 million out of 82.9 million owner-occupied homes (13.6%) are uninsured, a new study shows. A study from LendingTree that used Federal Emergency Management Agency data and U.S. Census data to calculate uninsured …
March 21, 2025
Parts of Hawaii are sinking faster than others, according to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, highlighting the flood risk to infrastructure, businesses and communities in low-lying areas especially in certain urban areas …
March 20, 2025
Roughly 170,000 properties were potentially impacted by the outbreak of severe storms across the Midwest and Mississippi Valley, in addition to a spate of wildfires and dust storms across the Southern Plains, CoreLogic said. The early season tornado outbreak over …
March 19, 2025
Extreme weather last year including typhoons, heatwaves and flooding led to the biggest displacement of people since 2008, and exacerbated a food crisis in more than a dozen countries, according to a report. Tropical cyclones were responsible for many of …
March 18, 2025
Tens of billions in aid for victims of Hurricane Helene should start flowing later this month, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins pledged last week, but delays are already making it hard this year for some farmers to plant crops. Congress …
March 13, 2025
“Fire took everything, please help.” The headline was one of hundreds like it on GoFundMe campaigns that launched even as the embers of the fires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena were still smoldering. They were a grim reminder that …
February 14, 2025
Heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides in Los Angeles late Thursday and early Friday, as authorities ordered evacuations and warned of potentially dangerous conditions across land burned by last month’s devastating wildfires. About half a foot of rain has fallen …
February 13, 2025
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it needs to borrow $2 billion from the U.S. Treasury to cover claims from National Flood Insurance Program policyholders. FEMA, administrator of NFIP, said it expects to pay out more than $10 billion in …
February 10, 2025
More people are aware of flood risk on the heels of a historic Atlantic hurricane season, a new survey shows. An annual survey conducted by the Neptune Flood in collaboration with the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Customer Experience …