Above: The costliest weather disaster of 2018 was Hurricane Michael, which made landfall on Florida's Panhandle as a top-end Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds on October 10, 2018, pushing a storm ...

As referenced in our recent CAT-Law post on the Catastrophic Losses of 2018, at the end of 2018 Congress passed the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (DRRA) in an effort to improve the nation’s ...

This story was originally published by the HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp Fire, which killed 86 people and burned the Northern California town of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BERLIN (AP) -- German insurance company Munich Re says the Northern California wildfire that killed dozens of people and burned ...

Natural disasters, fueled at least in part by climate change, cost the United States $91 billion in 2018, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A report released by the ...

Life in California often requires navigating the edges of natural beauty and natural disaster. On the fifth anniversary of a catastrophe, residents had to flee again. A trail of mud and debris was ...

The Agriculture Department will provide larger disaster-aid payments for losses in 2018 than for 2019 and will offer prevent-plant bonus payments of up to 15% for farmers who were unable to seed crops ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Four West Maui public schools closed. Students in limbo. Parents pushing for answers and access to education. That’s not just today, but also back in 2018 following destructive ...

Weather and climate-related disasters cost the U.S. economy $80 billion last year — and have hit the nation’s bottom line to the tune of roughly $100 billion per year over the last five years, ...