All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2022 // Amazon.com Inc. is obstructing a congressional investigation of a deadly December tornado by failing to provide documents about emergency preparedness and communications with workers during the storm, according to a letter...
Jun 3 2022 // New Jersey resident Shashuna Atwater is still living with the awful smell of sewage that inundated her basement when the remnants of Hurricane Ida struck New Jersey nine months ago, destroying photographs, diplomas and...
Jun 2 2022 // SAN ISIDRO DEL PALMAR, Mexico (AP) – Hurricane Agatha caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 11 people and left 20 missing, the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca said Tuesday.Gov. Alejando Murat said...
Jun 1 2022 // As the North Atlantic hurricane season begins officially today, forecasters continue to predict above-average storm activity.The pre-season forecast update for North Atlantic hurricane activity still predicts 18 named...
Jun 1 2022 // Thousands of people in Minnesota and South Dakota were without electrical power Tuesday as the region recovered from storms and tornadoes that left damaged buildings, trees and roadways. The National Weather Service said...
Jun 1 2022 // At the start of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, Insurance Journal spoke with Karen Clark, founder of two catastrophe modeling firms and now CEO of Karen Clark & Company (KCC). August 24, 2022 is the 30th...
Jun 1 2022 // Evacuation orders were lifted for residents along a road in the Napa wine country as firefighters made progress against a wildfire.The Napa County Office of Emergency Services told residents around midnight Tuesday they...
May 31 2022 // Crews were making progress in stopping the nation’s largest active wildfire from spreading on Monday, the fourth straight day of warnings of extreme fire conditions in northern New Mexico.The nearly 8-week-old fire...
May 31 2022 // Hurricane Agatha made landfall in Mexico’s Oaxaca state Monday afternoon in what’s expected to be the strongest May storm to hit the eastern Pacific on record.Agatha was already raking the Pacific coastline...
May 27 2022 // Crews in northern New Mexico have cleared and cut containment lines around nearly half of the perimeter of the nation’s largest active wildfire while bracing for a return of weather conditions that might fan flames...
May 25 2022 // Three tornadoes, one of which toppled a church steeple at the Indiana National Guard’s Camp Atterbury, hit parts of central and south-central Indiana on Saturday as a wave of severe thunderstorms swept across the...
May 25 2022 // A three-day comment period opened Tuesday for a proposed group housing site for Hurricane Ida survivors in one southeast Louisiana parish, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.Up to 75 families could be housed at...
May 25 2022 // The largest wildfire in North America slowed to a near standstill in northern New Mexico Tuesday amid light rain and a bit of snow in the mountains as nearly 3,000 firefighters scrambled to get ahead of a worsening fire...
May 24 2022 // The Atlantic hurricane season is poised to deliver another round of above-normal storms for the seventh consecutive year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Tuesday.NOAA forecasters estimate...
May 24 2022 // Residential property. complaints against Louisiana insurance companies skyrocketed in the aftermath of 2020 and 2021 hurricanes, according to a report released this month by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.The Louisiana...
May 24 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance International and Dale Underwriting Partners.A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Insurance Int’l Hires Chaucer’s...
May 23 2022 // Roofs and walls on a busy business stretch were turned to tangled rubble. Mobile homes were destroyed. Tornadoes are so uncommon in northern Michigan that Gaylord doesn’t have a siren system to warn people about...
May 23 2022 // As more than 2,700 firefighters in northern New Mexico continued to battle the nation’s largest active wildfire on Sunday, many evacuees were growing concerned about their future after weeks away from homeThe biggest...
May 20 2022 // Hawaii and the Central Pacific basin should expect two to four hurricanes, tropical depressions or tropical storms this year, federal forecasters said.The annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlook...
May 19 2022 // A wildfire in a heavily forested area of northern Michigan is now 98% contained and all road closures in the area have been lifted, state officials said Tuesday.The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said a stretch...