Latest Natural Disasters Headlines
All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wildfire Evacuation Orders Lifted for Northern California Fire
Jun 1 2022 // Evacuation orders were lifted for residents along a road in the Napa wine country as firefighters made progress against a wildfire. The Napa County Office of Emergency Services told residents around midnight Tuesday they...
Gains Made Against Massive New Mexico Wildfire
May 31 2022 // Crews were making progress in stopping the nation’s largest active wildfire from spreading on Monday, the fourth straight day of warnings of extreme fire conditions in northern New Mexico. The nearly 8-week-old fire...
Season’s First Hurricane Pummels Mexico With Strong Winds, Heavy Rain
May 31 2022 // Hurricane Agatha made landfall in Mexico’s Oaxaca state Monday afternoon in what’s expected to be the strongest May storm to hit the eastern Pacific on record. Agatha was already raking the Pacific coastline...
New Mexico Wildfire Nears 50% Containment
May 27 2022 // Crews in northern New Mexico have cleared and cut containment lines around nearly half of the perimeter of the nation’s largest active wildfire while bracing for a return of weather conditions that might fan flames...
Weather Service Confirms 3 Tornadoes Hit Indiana Over Weekend
May 25 2022 // Three tornadoes, one of which toppled a church steeple at the Indiana National Guard’s Camp Atterbury, hit parts of central and south-central Indiana on Saturday as a wave of severe thunderstorms swept across the...
FEMA Opens Proposed Hurricane Ida Housing Site Comment Period
May 25 2022 // A three-day comment period opened Tuesday for a proposed group housing site for Hurricane Ida survivors in one southeast Louisiana parish, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said. Up to 75 families could be housed at...
Rain and Snow Slow New Mexico Wildfire, But Hot, Dry Weather Looms
May 25 2022 // The largest wildfire in North America slowed to a near standstill in northern New Mexico Tuesday amid light rain and a bit of snow in the mountains as nearly 3,000 firefighters scrambled to get ahead of a worsening fire...
Forecasters Predict 7th Straight Above-Normal Hurricane Season
May 24 2022 // The Atlantic hurricane season is poised to deliver another round of above-normal storms for the seventh consecutive year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Tuesday. NOAA forecasters...
Louisiana Audit Shows Hurricanes Led to Increase in Insurance Complaints
May 24 2022 // Residential property. complaints against Louisiana insurance companies skyrocketed in the aftermath of 2020 and 2021 hurricanes, according to a report released this month by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor. The Louisiana...
People Moves: Arch Hires Chaucer’s Bauckham for Terrorism, Political Violence & War Team; Dale Moves Into Marine Treaty With 2 Hires From MS Amlin
May 24 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance International and Dale Underwriting Partners. A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Insurance Int’l Hires Chaucer’s...
Rare Northern Michigan Tornado Kills 2, Injures More than 40
May 23 2022 // Roofs and walls on a busy business stretch were turned to tangled rubble. Mobile homes were destroyed. Tornadoes are so uncommon in northern Michigan that Gaylord doesn’t have a siren system to warn people about...
New Mexico Wildfire Evacuees Worry About Their Future
May 23 2022 // As more than 2,700 firefighters in northern New Mexico continued to battle the nation’s largest active wildfire on Sunday, many evacuees were growing concerned about their future after weeks away from home The...
Hawaii Hurricane Season Forecasted to be Slow With La Nina
May 20 2022 // Hawaii and the Central Pacific basin should expect two to four hurricanes, tropical depressions or tropical storms this year, federal forecasters said. The annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlook...
Northern Michigan Wildfire 98% Contained
May 19 2022 // A wildfire in a heavily forested area of northern Michigan is now 98% contained and all road closures in the area have been lifted, state officials said Tuesday. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said a stretch...
NWS Confirms Weak Tornadoes in Kansas, Nebraska
May 19 2022 // The National Weather Service has confirmed a series of weak tornadoes across rural parts of northwestern Kansas and a county in southwestern Nebraska along the Kansas line. The tornadoes hit Tuesday afternoon as a line of...
Oregon Officials Warn of Difficult Wildfire Season
May 19 2022 // Oregon remains poised to see a potentially “challenging” wildfire season this summer, despite a wet and cool spring in much of western Oregon, one of the state’s top fire watchers said Monday. The rain...
Climate Change Boosted Cost of Japan’s Typhoon Hagibis by $4B: Study
May 19 2022 // The effects of human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly $4 billion of the $10 billion in insured losses resulting from Typhoon Hagibis that struck Japan in October of 2019, according to a new analysis of...
Growth of Massive New Mexico Wildfire Slowed
May 18 2022 // Firefighters have been able to slow the growth of a massive wildfire burning in the mountains of northeastern New Mexico as they prepared Wednesday for another round of red-flag weather that has the potential to push the...
Researchers to Build ‘Cat 6’ Hurricane Simulator with 200 mph Winds
May 18 2022 // The Category 6 hurricane’s howling winds accelerate to a startling 200 mph in Miami, mercilessly pummeling a two-story wood-frame house until the roof tears off and the rattling windows explode. And a towering...
Rain Brings Relief to Massive New Mexico Wildfire
May 17 2022 // Lightning sparked a few new small fires in the drought-stricken Southwest Monday but the thunderstorms brought welcome rain to the monster blaze that’s been churning for a month in New Mexico and is now the...
