The U.S. was spared by a direct hurricane hit last year, but claim costs for typically smaller, more frequent and localized ...

A recent study has determined that 2025 was the third highest year for the number of billion-dollar weather and climate ...

Natural disaster losses worldwide dropped sharply to $224 billion in 2025, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, but warned of a ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors ...

Notably, 2025 was the first year in over a decade when the U.S. was not impacted by a major hurricane. Still, largely due to ...

More natural disasters are impacting Missouri than before, and insurers are struggling to keep up with the rising risks. Last ...

In this age of megastorms, visionary designers around the world are taking clever advantage of the chance to rethink what ...

The “ Disaster Zone Energy Affordability and Investment Act ” would grant energy companies flexibility for unused tax credits ...

The Wiregrass, along with other counties across south and central Alabama, has been declared a primary natural disaster area ...

S. Korea recorded 387 deaths tied to disasters in 2024, with a heatwave accounting for 108 fatalities, the Ministry of the ...

Texas, Georgia and Illinois are the three worst states for natural disasters. Hawaii, Alaska and Maine are the three states with the fewest natural disasters. Natural disaster frequency and losses are ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...