Nearly one million of the trees felled in the 2020 derecho were in Linn County alone, and the damage left rural and urban ...

Five years after a derecho devastated Cedar Rapids, city officials said they've incorporated many of the lessons learned into ...

The August 2020 derecho inflicted billions of dollars in damage across the Midwest, including a massive economic impact in ...

SOT: TREES FOREVER“we lost an estimated 70% of our tree canopy in 45 minutes, so that’s estimated at 670,000 trees. We went ...

Sunday marks the five-year anniversary of the Midwest derecho, now known as the most expensive thunderstorm event in modern U ...

August 10, 2020 is a day many in eastern Iowa remember vividly as sunny skies quickly turned dark and winds picked up for ...

The city of Cedar Rapids and Linn County Emergency Management Service were criticized for their slow response when it came to ...

Like many in eastern Iowa, August 10, 2020 started off as an ordinary day for the Cedar Rapids Public Works Department and Mike Duffy who was their operations m ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Sunday marks the five year anniversary of the 2020 Derecho that hit eastern Iowa. On Friday, ...

Sunday, Aug. 10, marks 5 years since one of the worst storms in U.S. history. Iowa's tree population has yet to recover.

According to a report from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, much of Eastern Iowa had seen sustained winds of 70 ...

ReLeaf Cedar Rapids has already planted 19-thousand trees. and the goal is to plant 40,000 over 10 years. Cedar Rapids lost an estimated 720,000 trees in the derecho — some 65% of its overall ...