Harris County commissioners have asked for an update on 2018 flood bond projects, and after missing last month's deadline, ABC13 was told a presentation is coming soon. In 2017, the Greater Houston ...

As wildfires raze entire neighborhoods, currents pull coastal villages into the Atlantic, and hurricanes displace more and more people each year, homeowners face a grim reality: The costs of climate ...

In focus: Storms that stall or move at a snail's pace near the coastline pile up water and prolong the coastal flooding ...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Barbara has strengthened into a hurricane, the first of the eastern Pacific hurricane season.

Inside the University of Miami's SUSTAIN Laboratory, scientists are creating Category 5 hurricanes on demand in the world's ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special ...

The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which estimates potential property damage using a ...

The city of Lumberton will soon be home to a detention pond expansion project that officials see as a major balm to ease the biggest pain point the community will face this hurricane season. During ...

Flooding has been the biggest problem when major storms hit Hardin County. During Tropical Storm Harvey in 2017, parts of ...

Hurricanes have gotten larger and wetter because of climate change and inland communities are at greater risk from heavy ...

With those disasters in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made a big change to its Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide in 2023. The agency began encouraging cities, towns and counties ...

or $7,300 less than similar homes outside the flood zone before Hurricane Harvey, according to a study by Freddie Mac. After the storm, that discount more than doubled to 5.5%, or roughly $17,800 ...