Madera said from personal experience, evacuating in such a short time can be overwhelming. She added that one thing to consider is grabbing your hamper with dirty clothes. It has the clothes you're ...

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

The amount of damage caused by billion-dollar disasters reached an unprecedented amount in 2024, and the total cost of the ...

Not all communities face disasters equally. Some are hit harder, recover slower, or are more vulnerable from the start. FEMA's Risk Map ranks every county and Census tract in the U.S. based on three ...

As my L.A. County Fire partner and I were trying to get ahead of the flames, we drove up a narrow road into a canyon neighborhood above the endless sea of homes in the flat valley below. Appropriately ...

More and more people are building their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites. As residential areas expand into relatively untouched wildlands, these ...