With those disasters in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made a big change to its Local Mitigation Planning ...

A major hurricane could shut down one of the country’s largest energy and petrochemical hubs. But a decadeslong effort to ...

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

When a hurricane causes extreme damage or loss of life, its name is retired from future use out of respect and to avoid ...

Since Tropical Storm Harvey, Orange County, along with its drainage district and cities has been working to increase the size ...

The remnants of Hurricane Harvey packed enough punch to bring severe ... 7 mile, Herron said. It caused damage to a house’s roof and caused exterior damage to others. Two car ports also ...

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

HURRICANE MARIA Less than two weeks after areas in the Caribbean were hit by Hurricane Irma, Maria moved in as a Category 5 hurricane. It has caused devastation as it moved through the Caribbean.

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

Going back to superstorm Sandy’s destruction in New York and New Jersey. Hurricane Maria that plunged Puerto Rico into darkness. Irma, that tore through Florida. And Harvey, that left much of ...

Since the turn of the century, major hurricanes hitting the U.S. have had one key feature in common. Location. The Gulf of ...