From severe storms to tornadoes, natural disaster statistics reveal that disasters are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity. Over the past five years, the U.S. has experienced an ...

↓ What are the major types of natural disasters? ↓ How is a disaster officially ‘declared’? What are the major types of natural disasters? Natural disasters include all types of severe weather, ...

Natural disasters—from tornadoes across the South and Midwest, to the fires in Los Angeles to Hurricane Helene’s devastation in North Carolina—have upended communities, with small businesses among the ...

On Nov. 6, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center​ in Spain, the Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions will meet for the first time. The new United Nations initiative ...

Stage two of the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) is moving into the initial stages of implementation, USDA officials announced during a media briefing on Monday. In what USDA Deputy ...

June Isaacson Kailes lives 8 or 9 miles away from the evacuation zone for the Los Angeles wildfires. But even before the fires started, she had plans for how she’d escape in the event of a disaster.

When a major storm blows through town, local, state, and tribal governments rely on federal funding to help them recover. Rebuilding schools and roads, repairing power lines, and cleaning up debris ...