As natural disasters continue their 21st century rise, the first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for the U.S. Los Angeles wildfires, Midwest tornadoes, and Mississippi floods caused over 100 ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are just ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

States With The Most Natural Disasters. Do you know how sometimes huge things happen in nature that have the potential to really screw up your week? Well, these are called natural disasters. They ...

Texas, Georgia and Illinois are the three worst states for natural disasters. Hawaii, Alaska and Maine are the three states with the fewest natural disasters. Natural disaster frequency and losses are ...

Economic losses from hurricanes and other natural disasters soared in the U.S. last year and were above average globally, reflecting another year of costly severe storms, floods and droughts. Damage ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News“ is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The ...

The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government using the same methodology. In its first update at ...

Heatwaves ranked even lower on the list of scariest disasters, a distant seventh place with just 6% of the vote. An ...