All the headlines from our Catastrophe Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 29 2025 // Cotality said it has identified more than 33.1 million residential properties from Texas to Maine with a combined reconstruction cost value of $11.7 trillion at least moderate risk of sustaining damage from hurricane-force...
May 29 2025 // Missouri lawmakers are to kick off a special session Monday to consider aid for tornado victims and a package of financial incentives aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from leaving the state for new or...
May 29 2025 // When Michael Balarezo emerged from the basement office of his Boulder, Colo., home in December 2021, smoke plumes from the nearby Marshall Fire were visible from his driveway.Balarezo, his wife and daughter swiftly stowed...
May 29 2025 // No place is more vulnerable to hurricanes in the 50 U.S. states than the Florida Keys.The chain of islands celebrated by singer Jimmy Buffett in his odes to tropical escapism is surrounded by water, jutting out 120 miles...
May 27 2025 // Extreme heat levels of are expected in the western United States later this week, raising the risk wildfires and heat-related illnesses and putting a strain on power grids.Meteorologists at AccuWeather say a strong dome of...
May 27 2025 // The brightly colored sign along the S-curve mountain road beckons visitors to the Gemstone Mine, the “#1 ATTRACTION IN CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE!” But another sign, on the shop’s mud-splattered front door,...
May 27 2025 // Hot weather sparked a string of wildfires around Alberta over the weekend, including some near oil and gas wells operated by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and others.Four out-of-control fires were burning in Alberta at...
May 27 2025 // As nasty tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode.The agency’s office in Jackson, Kentucky, had begun closing nightly as deep cuts by Elon Musk’s...
May 23 2025 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance released preliminary uninsured estimates for properties in the St. Louis in response to the F3 tornado that struck the region on Friday, May 16.DCI Department Director...
May 22 2025 // With warmer than normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting yet another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic. But they don’t think it will be as chaotic as 2024, the third-costliest season on record...
May 22 2025 // More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band.“I...
May 21 2025 // Global loss of tropical and boreal forests surged to a record high last year as unprecedented temperatures fueled fires, releasing more than four times the emissions of all air travel in 2023.That’s according to the...
May 20 2025 // More tornadoes plowed through the central U.S. on Monday and thousands were without power as people from Texas to Kentucky continued to clean up from days of severe weather that killed more than two dozen people and...
May 20 2025 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) chimed in to a recent Senate subcommittee hearing to defend the industry’s response to claims following hurricanes Milton and Helene.“The vast...
May 19 2025 // More severe storms were expected to roll across the central U.S. this week following the weather-related deaths of more than two dozen people and a devastating Kentucky tornado.The National Weather Service said a...
May 16 2025 // Swiss Re AG’s profit rose in the first quarter as losses from the California wildfires were offset by positive performance across the business.Net income increased to $1.3 billion from $1.1 billion a year earlier,...
May 16 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Cotality.There’s a blurry line between where a wildfire ends and a conflagration begins. But, without an understanding of both types of fires, their dynamics, and their...
May 15 2025 // Tampa-based Slide Insurance announced it has finalized a $250 million catastrophe bond through Purple Re Ltd., expanding Slide’s hurricane protection in Florida and South Carolina.“Securing cat bonds over the...
May 15 2025 // Hedge fund Fermat Capital Management expects the market for catastrophe bonds to grow 20% this year, as a product based on disasters gains ground in a world increasingly shaped by extreme weather, population density and...
May 15 2025 // A technological glitch caused an emergency alert to be mistakenly sent to millions of Los Angeles County residents in January rather than only those in the proximity of a wildfire, according to a congressional report.The...