NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid ...

Florida showed the way decades ago by adopting a single statewide standard, saving lives and billions of dollars and showing ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Natural disasters across the country are increasing. In 2021, there were 20 different natural disasters, each one causing at least $1 billion in damages. A report from the United ...

Nearly six years after the Hard Rock Hotel collapsed onto Canal Street, killing three workers and injuring hundreds of others ...

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, ...

Nonprofit introduces the Strong Homes Scale to help homeowners evaluate resilience and explore customized strengthening options for six different disaster types. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 25, 2025 ...

A billion-dollar seawall may shield the city’s wealthy core — but not the vulnerable communities beyond it. Who will be ...

As his team searched for survivors, he wondered what could have happened if the gutting of the US Agency for International ...

At least three people were killed and dozens were injured when a building hosting a prayer recital collapsed on Indonesia's ...