These 26 pictures show the worst hurricanes that have hit the US through history. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was, and still is, the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States. The hurricane hit ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.

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

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.

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

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Louisiana’s coastal communities—a network of fisheries, oil and gas hubs, and wildlife refuges—saw catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ida. Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish, a far south coastal ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. — In response to potential impacts from recent flooding caused by Hurricane Helene and in partnership with Tennessee State Representative Jeremy Faison, the Tennessee Wildlife ...

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Hurricane Harvey, the category 4 storm that devastated the Gulf Coast in 2017, made landfall on a Friday night. By Saturday night, torrential rainfall engulfed the Texas coast, and League City ...

The USA TODAY Network has deployed drones to help tell the story of Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath along the Gulf Coast. Here are some of the locations captured by this new technology: ...