National Preparedness Month serves as an opportunity to consider potential emergencies and make efforts to get ready for them by learning where safe places are for evacuation and discussing plans with ...

As Los Angeles County students begin returning to school after wildfires devastated the region, it’s worth examining how other U.S. educational systems disrupted by natural disasters have moved ...

There have been a record 25 weather and climate-related natural disasters in the U.S. so far this year that have each caused at least $1 billion in damages—floods, wildfires, drought, severe storms ...

SEATTLE — Since the devastating flooding hit in Texas over the holiday weekend, we've had the same question posed time and again to the KOMO weather team: can that kind of flooding happen here? The ...

The world is on fire. Quite literally, much of the time. Predicting such disasters before they get out of hand — or better yet, before they happen — will be key to maintaining a reasonable quality of ...

Extreme weather is inevitable. It can occur at any time and impacts different parts of the country in different ways, as some areas experience hurricanes or tornadoes while others deal with wildfires ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — As natural disasters increase across the South, the American Red Cross is urging more volunteers to join their efforts in providing essential resources and assistance to ...

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In the past five years alone, natural disasters have wrought billions of dollars in costs and damages across the country — over $616 billion to be more precise. Just last year alone, there were 492 ...