The most deadly natural disasters in U.S. history include hurricanes, heat waves, tornadoes, blizzards, and much more.

Natural disasters have been shaping the path of human history for thousands of years. They leave behind stories of destruction, fatalities, and eventually, survival. They also leave behind stories of ...

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid funding cuts by the Trump administration.

As we near the peak of hurricane season, it was 125 years ago that Texas’s history was altered forever due to a massive, ...

Arrows show the approximate locations where the TWA and United planes crashed into the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The ...

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic ...

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

FEMA workers help residents who lost homes in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires apply for aid. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...