The most viewed headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page over the last year.
Mar 31 2025 // Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down...
Apr 7 2025 // A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to a preliminary estimate from AccuWeather.From April 2 to April 6, a rare...
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...
Jan 9 2025 // A residual property insurer and regulators in two Southeastern states are emphasizing roof integrity, more signs that mitigation and prevention are increasingly recognized as ways to reduce insured losses as storms...
Mar 18 2025 // Florida International University has long been known as a hurricane research center. Think: the famous Wall of Wind, the giant fan system that tests the effects of 157-mph winds on structures and materials. A much larger,...
Sep 4 2025 // With inland flooding, storm surge losses and government cutbacks on the rise, parametric flood insurance may finally be having a moment in Florida and elsewhere in the Southeast.“It’s starting to get some...
Mar 5 2025 // The Carolinas saw some much-needed rainfall Wednesday morning, helping to quell wildfires that had burned more than 2,600 acres – but also raising the threat of tornadoes.Even with the new rainfall, insurance and weather...
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...
Feb 12 2025 // Municipal bonds sold by the state of Florida are poised to become much scarcer.That’s because Governor Ron DeSantis plans to pay down $1.7 billion of tax-supported debt as part of his budget proposal for the fiscal...
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes.The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
Mar 5 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.As property insurance costs continue to rise, homeowners and insurers alike are facing new challenges. While hurricanes and wildfires often dominate discussions around...
Dec 2 2025 // The just-ended 2025 Atlantic hurricane season surprised some forecasters after it produced no major storms that hit the United States. But the hurricanes that did arise, with most remaining offshore and one slamming...
Feb 5 2025 // Aon plc said it has launched a new parametric insurance solution designed to address and mitigate commercial losses from hurricane-related storm surge along the coast of the U.S.Developed with parametric flood insurance...
Mar 12 2025 // A potent storm system is expected to pour heavy rain on western states later this week before rumbling into the central United States, where it could spawn tornadoes in the South and dump heavy snow across the parts of the...
Apr 11 2025 // No contractors, no repair estimates, no haggling with the insurance company: After a tornado struck an Amish community in Michigan, the work was underway even before the National Weather Service could assess the...
Mar 6 2025 // Convective storms added to a year of extreme weather events that will put pressure on property insurance rates, particularly in a few hard-hit states, a new report shows.CoreLogic released its 2025 Severe Convective Storm...
Jan 8 2025 // Flight cancellations are already piling up as a winter storm bears down on Texas and the US South, bringing snow and ice that could coat power lines and trigger blackouts.As of 7:30 a.m. in New York, at least 169 flights...
Jan 7 2025 // A blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures stirred up dangerous travel conditions in parts of the central U.S as a disruptive winter storm brought the possibility of the heaviest snowfall in a decade to some...
Jan 24 2025 // Sugarcane crops in Louisiana and Florida, the only two states producing sugar from cane in the United States, could be hurt by the cold snap in the area, while citrus farms seemed to have mostly been spared, experts said...
Mar 21 2025 // A gust of wind sweeps over bare soil, kicking up enough dirt and dust to cut visibility to nearly zero, and for drivers, the dust storm seems to come out of nowhere.Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70...