NOAA began tracking billion-dollar disasters in 1980. Since then the U.S. has sustained 426 billion-dollar disasters, with a ...

Weather disasters cost the United States billions in 2025 despite no hurricanes. What caused the billion-dollar disasters and ...

Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events ...

There have been 27 major disaster declarations issued by President Trump so far in 2025. The disasters range in size and scope, from the L.A. wildfires to Midwest tornadoes and the Texas flooding as ...

The data’s in for 2025. It was yet another year of back-to-back billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.

While the impact of more frequent and costly weather disasters on the insurance industry is well known, the new report from climate risk analytics firm First Street highlights the growing risk to ...

(The Center Square) — U.S. senators from Arizona and Nevada have introduced legislation declaring extreme heat a major disaster. The Extreme Heat Emergency Act from Sens. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, and ...

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

This month's horrific flooding in Texas Hill Country, which killed at least 135 people when the Guadalupe River rose to unprecedented heights — at unprecedented speed — is the latest example of ...

Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly weather events. Eric Sorensen has felt for years that the country could better ...