Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.

A $1.3 billion Powerball win sounds life-changing. Here’s the catch. Almost half of adults say they are ordering kids' meals.

The FEMA Act of 2025 would break FEMA out of DHS and make it an independent agency, along with other major disaster management reforms.

In 2023, the world witnessed a series of major disasters that caused widespread destruction, tearing up homes and communities, and in many cases, taking lives. Here is a retrospective — but not ...

Updated crop and rangeland damage estimations for 2023 show the impacts of natural disasters on domestic farm production. The assessment puts total crop and rangeland losses from major 2023 disasters ...

The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are some of the natural disasters that have contributed to global ...

These events are small enough to escape widespread notice, but they happen frequently, accumulating damages that rival, and in some cases surpass, a major one-off disaster.

Governor Kelly Armstrong declared a statewide disaster for the storm on Aug. 7 and 8, which damaged electrical infrastructure ...

PTSD rates reported in and around East Palestine, Ohio, "are over twice the prevalence of the national estimates," a new study's co-author told Newsweek.

A massive hurricane, a historic drought, and 16 other major disasters across the US collectively racked up $165 billion in damages and killed at least 474 people in 2022, according to a National ...

10 People Responsible for Major Disasters Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re taking a closer look at people (and groups) throughout history who were responsible for (or exacerbated) major ...

In the last three years alone, FEMA made nine major disaster declarations in Tennessee, from severe winter storms to tornado outbreaks and flooding.