A Category 5 monster that ravaged the Caribbean and ... Record-breaking rainfall submerged Houston in catastrophic floods. :fire: #1: Hurricane Katrina (2005) – $201.5 billion.

The costliest disasters on the National Centers for Environmental Information "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" ...

He knows the difference between destruction and utter devastation, and puts the nation's truly cataclysmic events — those that erase entire communities in a blink — in a category all their own.

Hurricane storm surge flood waters can take a heavy toll on society. TACC supercomputer simulations are an important tool for U.S. state and federal agencies in protecting life and property.

The world endured three of its top-20 costliest disasters on record in 2024, its fifth-deadliest wildfire, and a record three ...

With strong winds, dry conditions and no immediate end in sight, analysts project total economic losses of $50 billion to ...

Carteret County homeowners need to prepare for sticker shock as they assess the anticipated rising cost of insurance and taxes that will begin in March with the arrival of new property valuations and ...

Presidential scholars say it's not worth it for Bush to get involved in public spats with Trump and say it will only hurt him ...

Fears of “chemtrails,” a long-disproven idea that condensation trails — or contrails — from planes contain ...

Wildfires exacerbate inequalities by destroying affordable housing stock, forcing relocations, and making rebuilding costs ...

He often lived in impacted communities for months to oversee recovery and managed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers missions after Hurricane Katrina and ... devastated by Category 5 storm Hurricane ...

It got off to an explosive start in July with Beryl, the earliest category 5 hurricane on ... making it the deadliest hurricane to affect the continental U.S. since Katrina in 2005, NOAA said.