At least one disaster was declared in the county of 6819 different active facilities, or 62.8%, from 2019 to 2024.

Climate change-driven weather disasters like hurricanes, wildfires and floods pose an immediate threat to the U.S. drug ...

Walmart officially opened its security and disaster operations center, where meteorologists and other staff track potentially hazardous conditions across the U.S. and around the world, on Thursday.

Weather-related disasters caused $93 billion in damage in the U.S. during the first six months of 2025, according to a new ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s.

From hurricanes to wildfires to hail, the United States experienced another above-average year of catastrophic weather events last year. In fact, eighteen weather disasters inflicted losses ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly ...

The extreme weather triggered by America’s unique geography creates hazards. But it takes humans to turn those hazards into disasters, Ashley and Gensini said.

The Plainfield tornado touched down on Aug. 28, 1990, and remains the only F-5 tornado ever recorded in the state of Illinois. Even more staggering, it remains the strongest August tornado on record ...