All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2022 // A tornado watch is in effect for parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee until 6:00 p.m. CST, Thursday Feb. 16, according to the National Weather Service.The NWS said to expect “Severe thunderstorms...
Feb 17 2022 // Britain’s Met Office issued a rare red weather warning for parts of the UK, saying hurricane-strength gusts of 90 miles (145 kilometers) an hour are set to hit the country on Friday.The weather service said the most...
Feb 16 2022 // Storms across northwest Europe are set to drive electricity generation from wind farms to records this week in gusty conditions that threaten to disrupt transportation and down power lines.Weather forecasters in the UK,...
Feb 15 2022 // Hurricane Elsa, which made landfall on July 7, 2021, with winds of 86 mph, caused about $1 billion in damage to the southern United States and multiple Caribbean countries, the National Hurricane Center reported.New data...
Feb 15 2022 // The U.S. Forest Service in Oregon will receive more than $262 million in federal disaster funding to help with wildfire recovery. Oregon Public Broadcasting reported the money is part of a $1.1 billion disaster assistance...
Feb 14 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and emergency management leaders in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Administration on Monday announced “Safer from Wildfires,” an insurance framework that incorporates...
Feb 14 2022 // Destructive and costly wildfires in the western U.S. over the past several years are driving efforts to better understand wildfire risk, ways to more effectively prevent and mitigate wildfires, and approaches to insuring...
Feb 11 2022 // Great American Insurance Group has promoted Jason M. Cohen to senior vice president and Julie F. Kadnar to divisional group president within its Property & Casualty Group.In 2006, Cohen joined the company as divisional...
Feb 10 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Liberty Specialty Markets and broker New Dawn Risk.A summary of these new hires follows here. Liberty Specialty Markets Names Beattie as Global Head of War...
Feb 9 2022 // MIDLAND — One local said it sounded like a pickup truck had rammed into the side of their house. Another said it sounded like the air conditioner fell off the roof. A third compared the experience to getting off of a...
Feb 9 2022 // Efforts to reduce a backlog of tens of thousands of cases in Texas’ busiest court system got a boost Feb. 7 with the reopening of a newly restored building for jury selection.Officials and attorneys say bringing some...
Feb 9 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), RiverStone International and broker Tysers.A summary of these new hires follows here. BHSI Promotes...
Feb 8 2022 // A federal disaster declaration approved last year after remnants of Hurricane Ida hit Connecticut has been amended to include certain damage that occurred in Fairfield and Litchfield counties, Gov. Ned Lamont announced...
Feb 7 2022 // An insurance policy that lists named windstorms among the covered perils doesn’t cover flood damages caused by Hurricane Harvey even though flooding wasn’t specifically excluded, a panel of the 5th Circuit...
Feb 7 2022 // Three months after the most destructive fire in California’s history, the residents of Paradise were sifting through the rubble of their houses, moving out of shelters and into less temporary but not permanent...
Feb 4 2022 // Insured losses from major natural catastrophes in 2021 – excluding COVID-related losses – have so far reached an estimated US$116 billion, the third largest total since 2011, and about 63% higher than the average loss...
Feb 3 2022 // Colorado lawmakers passed a bill to increase wildfire mitigation efforts, just a month since a devastating fire tore through suburbs north of Denver, destroying more than 1,000 homes and businesses and killing at least one...
Feb 1 2022 // A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck northern Oklahoma at 11:10 a.m. CST Jan. 31 about seven kilometers northwest of Medford, the United States Geological Survey confirmed. A USGS Community Internet Intensity Map reported...
Feb 1 2022 // A new earthquake-warning app is available for Washington state.The state said there are already two warning systems in place, but the MyShake app provides a third and possibly quicker option, The Seattle Times reported....
Feb 1 2022 // A magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattled an inland region of San Diego County on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.The quake hit at 9:46 a.m. near Palomar Observatory, about 65 miles northeast of downtown San...