Eighty-one years ago today, on Dec. 17, 1944, the U.S. Navy's 3rd Fleet Fast Carrier Task Force was in a refueling operation ...

This Christmas could be brutal for Southern California, where weather forecasters predict record rainfall. One concern stems ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

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 ...

In the fall of 1913, a violent force was unleashed across the Great Lakes. More than a century later, it still goes by many names. All are deadly: The White Hurricane. The Big Blow. The Frozen Fury.

On July 4, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes, unleashing one of the worst natural disasters in Texas ...

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 ...

An AI analysis of Google Street View images across 16 states shows that damaged buildings in poorer communities often remain ...