FEMA’s Risk Index ranks every U.S. county by disaster risk, social vulnerability, and community resilience. Here’s what it reveals—and how to use it.

Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by the Los Angeles ...

Climate change is impacting the frequency and intensity of natural disasters like hurricanes and severe flooding. “Natural disasters means destructive events caused by natural forces that result ...

From the COVID-19 pandemic to deadly flash floods and wildfires, disasters seldom occur in a vacuum, and a group of ...

In the United States, natural disasters were the sole reason 11 million residents had to relocate domestically. Cyclones triggered more than half of disaster-related movements worldwide last year.

(AP) - Twenty Democratic-led states filed suit Wednesday against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, challenging the elimination of a long-running grant program that helps communities guard ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a tool to map the effects of disasters, even as federal agencies pull back on research about those events’ economic impact.

Natural disasters—from tornadoes across the South and Midwest, to the fires in Los Angeles to Hurricane Helene’s devastation in North Carolina—have upended communities, with small businesses ...

Land near Dallas, Texas, submerged in flood waters in August 2022. More recent flooding in central Texas last week claimed at least 80 lives. Flash flooding in Texas, which started on Wednesday and ...

Read more Tornado causes havoc in America's heartland A tornado ripped through Ada, Oklahoma for the second time in a matter of weeks ...