The U.S. Forest Service should allow helicopters to fight fires during darkness, a tactic that could have been used in the critical first hours of the summer’s gigantic and deadly wildfire in the Angeles National Forest, a Los Angeles County …
A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain and operate the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet MRGO was a substantial cause for the flooding of part of the New Orleans-area during Hurricane …
Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. announced that it now offers a reinsurance product for insurance companies impacted by rising insured losses from ‘local’ natural catastrophes. “The Nat Cat Frequency Cover is designed to protect insurers against the accumulation of losses resulting …
The outlook is not good for Oregon bridges in a major earthquake. A study released Monday concludes that U.S. Highway 101 on the coast would be impassable, all connections from the coast to the Willamette Valley would be broken, and …
Clarksville, Mo., is moving ahead with what Mayor Jo Anne Smiley calls the “monumental task” of never again having to worry about the Mississippi River ruining businesses and disrupting lives in this town of 490 residents. It will take time, …
Some north Alabama residents awoke to a shaky start of the new week. A small earthquake rattled the northern part of the state Monday morning. The 1.4 magnitude quake centered around the Fort Payne area. It hit around 4 a.m. …
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide described the storm, which struck Southern England and Wales last Friday night, November 13, as the “strongest storm of the season.” Winds gusting up to 160 kilometers per hour (100 mph) were recorded on …
Residents living downstream from Fargo, N.D., and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., along the Red River fear their towns would be sacrificed in a diversion plan to save the two larger cities from chronic flooding. Backers of the plan say it’s too …
Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine has requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) send preliminary damage assessment teams to Virginia to help determine damage levels from the recent Nor’easter. “On Saturday, I toured several areas that were affected by …
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Sayre, Tea and Freeway Fires in Southern California, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced in a press statement Friday that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) has recovered $16.9 million from insurance …
