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 ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly ...

In early July, flash floods along the Guadalupe River killed 138 people and caused an estimated $1.1 billion in damage, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in Texas history. But just a ...

A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan ’s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the ...

Portugal observed a national day of mourning Thursday after the capital’s worst disaster in recent history, when the Gloria ...