All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 30 2021 // A magnitude 3.9 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.The earthquake’s epicenter was in San Lorenzo, an East Bay community in Alameda County 13 miles...
Jun 30 2021 // A wildfire in Northern California has grown significantly and begun to pose a threat communities. The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders Monday for the Lake Shastina and Juniper Valley...
Jun 29 2021 // Spurred by recent hurricanes and a rare winter storm that demonstrated the frailty of Louisiana’s public water supply, lawmakers have set their attention on improving the state’s troubled water...
Jun 29 2021 // The risk of wildfires is growing with more warm, dry weather in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.The fire danger in Yellowstone is rated as “high” and in Grand Teton it’s “very...
Jun 29 2021 // Panelists convened by the Insurance Information Institute and ResilientH20 Partners agreed that resilience is building due to technological advances and greater awareness about how wildfires spread.In the latest...
Jun 29 2021 // In 2020 alone, more than 10.3 million acres were burned by wildfires across the United States, a level three times higher than the 10-year average from 1990 to 2000 10. Between fire suppression costs, direct and indirect...
Jun 29 2021 // The National Hurricane Center has withdrawn yesterday’s tropical storm warning. Tropical Storm Danny has weakened as it travels inland over Georgia and is no longer classified as a tropical cyclone.The remnants of...
Jun 28 2021 // Residents in the Detroit area were cleaning up June 27 after flooding in the area overloaded sewer systems, damaged homes and knocked out power for thousands.Bags of trash lined neighborhood streets in suburban Grosse...
Jun 28 2021 // The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for parts of the South Carolina coast due to the formation of a tropical depression.The warning is for citizens from Edisto Beach northeastward to South...
Jun 28 2021 // MEXICO CITY – The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season brushed past the coastal shoulder of southwestern Mexico Monday, keeping just off shore while sweeping the coast with heavy rains and winds that raised the...
Jun 25 2021 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday narrowed the scope of a class action lawsuit against TransUnion in which thousands of people sought damages after the credit reporting company flagged their names as matching those on a...
Jun 25 2021 // President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration needs to “bring every resource to bear” to deal with natural disasters as huge swaths of the country have already endured extreme weather with the summer...
Jun 25 2021 // Hrusky, Czech Republic — Emergency workers and residents combed through wreckage in southern Czech Republic on Friday after a tornado ripped roofs off buildings and sent cars flying through the air, killing at least...
Jun 23 2021 // California wildfires were burning in tinder dry vegetation in rugged central coast mountains and near an Eastern Sierra trailhead where hikers begin treks to the summit of Mount Whitney.More than 500 firefighters were...
Jun 23 2021 // A tornado that swept through Chicago’s western suburbs, damaging more than 100 homes and injuring several people, was packing 140 mph winds when it hit the heavily populated area, the National Weather Service said.A...
Jun 22 2021 // A tornado damaged several buildings and knocked down power lines and trees in eastern Iowa Sunday night; a tornado near the Ohio-Indiana border damaged houses and other structures; and several parts of Missouri were...
Jun 22 2021 // California’s weather moderated after a long siege of extreme heat but firefighters still faced the difficult task of trying to contain a large forest fire in rugged coastal mountains south of Big Sur.The Willow Fire...
Jun 21 2021 // Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill rushed through in a special legislative session that provides $100 million in funding this year to battle wildfires, react to the damage they cause and to create a new force of...
Jun 21 2021 // Severe thunderstorms tore through the Chicago area on Sunday night after the National Weather Service said a “confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado” had touched down in a western suburb of the city,...
Jun 21 2021 // Complaints over insurance claims arising out of the three hurricanes that struck Louisiana last year had resulted in a recovery of $41 million for consumers by end of April, Louisiana insurance regulators say.The Louisiana...