All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2016 // In September, Hurricane Hermine broke Florida’s hurricane drought that had lasted since 2005. The category 1 storm hit the Florida Panhandle, bringing significant storm surge to the Tampa Bay area before slowly...
Dec 8 2016 // The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season concluded on Nov. 30 with 15 named storms generating seven hurricanes, three of which were considered major ones, according to the industry’s Insurance Information Institute...
Dec 5 2016 // The Double R Farm in South Carolina has produced abundant crops for four generations of Rabon family farmers here, and despite the double whammy of record rains during the October harvest last year and last month’s...
Dec 2 2016 // Virginia suffered only a glancing blow from Hurricane Matthew last month when unprecedented amounts of rain fell, but on Wednesday officials estimated flood damage to be hundreds of millions of dollars, making it the...
Dec 1 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation expressed satisfaction with its response efforts to the first hurricanes to hit Florida in more than a decade as the end of the 2016 hurricane season officially ended Nov....
Nov 29 2016 // The Northeastern coast of the U.S. could be struck by more frequent and powerful hurricanes in the future due to shifting weather patterns, according to new research presented in a study led by Durham University in the...
Nov 23 2016 // Cleanup costs keep rising in Chatham County, along Georgia’s coast, in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.The latest estimate of the funds needed to recover from damage in unincorporated parts of the county is now more...
Nov 22 2016 // Although Atlantic hurricane season ends in November, cleanup from any damage seen on the East Coast could last beyond the end of the season. Some coastal areas, such as Virginia Beach, were impacted this season,...
Nov 22 2016 // It’s a different concept, a way to build at ground level in a flood zone. And it’s working for a business in Jackson County, Miss.DaBayou Bar & Grill may look thrown together, but there is a lot of planning...
Nov 22 2016 // Hurricane Matthew victims in North Carolina have more time to apply for federal disaster assistance.The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a news release that it has approved a 31-day extension for applications....
Nov 17 2016 // The Double R Farm in South Carolina has produced abundant crops for four generations of Rabon family farmers here, and despite the double whammy of record rains during the October harvest last year and last month’s...
Nov 10 2016 // Hurricane Matthew, which swept through parts of the Caribbean and United States, had total economic losses of up to US$15 billion, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team.In...
Nov 9 2016 // Cherokee Nation Technologies has entered a partnership to support hurricane forecasting and damage assessment.The collaborative effort between Cherokee Nation along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Nov 8 2016 // Southeast Georgia residents are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Matthew of debris removal that may last well into next year.The Savannah Morning News reports that city officials in Savannah are asking residents to...
Nov 7 2016 // It’s been just over a month since Hurricane Matthew ravaged the Southeast coast but the insurance industry’s job of responding to the devastation and assessing the total cost of damage from the storm is far...
Nov 7 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders to file claims from Hurricane Hermine.“After productive discussions between Insurance...
Nov 3 2016 // North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said Tuesday he expects to call lawmakers to a special session next month on Hurricane Matthew relief for eastern North Carolina, looking to Congress for supplemental aid first and...
Nov 2 2016 // The Georgia Department of Insurance is ordering all insurers operating in the state to report claims information related to Hurricane Matthew. The storm, which began its path through Georgia starting Oct. 7, is estimated...
Oct 27 2016 // Coastal wetlands provide important natural protection during hurricanes. How much? Natural habitats reduced property damage by about $625 million in the Northeast during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a new study supported by...
Oct 27 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders to file claims from Hurricane Hermine.“After productive discussions between Insurance...