Notably, 2025 was the first year in over a decade when the U.S. was not impacted by a major hurricane. Still, largely due to ...

The United States experienced its third-highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on record in 2025, ...

Individuals pay their respects at a makeshift memorial to victims of the Texas floods. In a surprising number of cases, the worst disasters strike in the middle of night. The deadly Texas floods ...

Hurricanes and earthquakes are the two most likely natural disasters to cause billions in damage. Unfortunately, many of these storms occurred before the federal government and FEMA considered these ...

A preliminary estimate of the financial impact of the Los Angeles blazes ranks the incident among the costliest ever natural disasters in the US, and likely the nation’s most expensive ever wildfire.

The figures are in. These are the worst weather disasters of last year, ranked by dollar amount. Douglas A. McIntyre, ...

All the recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying. The midair collision that killed 67 near Washington D.C. last month was the worst disaster. But there ...

The report also lists 10 other extreme weather events that did not rank among the costliest because insurance coverage was low.

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...

The Spanish government on Tuesday described wildfires that have swept the country as one of the country's worst environmental disasters in years, as it approved relief measures for affected areas.