When examining climate disasters, it’s important to distinguish them from weather events unrelated to climate change and from ...

Between January 5 and January 9, 1998, Maine saw a generational ice storm. Waves of freezing rain dumped up to 3 inches of ...

Last year was one of the worst years for U.S. natural disasters, according to researchers, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) future remains uncertain. According to a new analysis ...

Natural disasters, from sweeping hurricanes to destructive floods, are painfully preserved into the memory of people in the United States. While statistics help showing the amount of damage they ...

The flood currently devastating Louisiana is the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Sandy, the Red Cross says, according to CNN. Suggested Reading The Best and Worst NPR ...

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One of the worst natural disasters to hit Connecticut struck 70 years ago. On Aug. 19, 1955, rivers across the state raged out of their banks, destroying entire villages and killing nearly 100 people.

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin ...

Irene may have bypassed New York City but, in Vermont, two months worth of rain fell in less than 24 hours. It's the worst disaster since epic flooding in 1927, as we hear from Matt Sutkoski, weather ...

Not all communities face disasters equally. Some are hit harder, recover slower, or are more vulnerable from the start. FEMA's Risk Map ranks every county and Census tract in the U.S. based on three ...