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You can no longer have the mindset that "that won't happen here." Because it absolutely could. As we head into 2026, consider ...

September is Natural Preparedness Month and the Red Cross is urging residents to take advantage and prepare their households for natural disasters. Officials say each year, Red Cross volunteers ...

As happens after every major natural disaster, political leaders — everyone from President Trump to Gov. Gavin Newsom of California — have vowed to rebuild after last year’s hurricanes and the recent ...

June Isaacson Kailes lives 8 or 9 miles away from the evacuation zone for the Los Angeles wildfires. But even before the fires started, she had plans for how she’d escape in the event of a disaster.

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...

Last year, the insurance industry saw 27 weather events that resulted in at least a billion dollars in insured losses, including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornadoes. Overall, last year, ...

(NerdWallet) – Natural disasters, whether massive wildfires, hurricanes, or floods, can upend lives in an instant, but unwinding the financial damage can take many months. Still, those affected have ...

The pictures are horrific and terrifying. Entire neighborhoods wiped out like a war zone. Over 12,000 buildings destroyed. Hundreds of thousands ordered to evacuate. Nearly 40,000 acres burned. And it ...