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 ...

With a changing climate on a global scale, it was no news that a disastrous consequence could be expected at any time. However, not all communities would be privy to equal kinds and amounts of ...

For decades, NOAA’s Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database has been a go-to resource for tracking the rising cost and human toll of extreme weather in the United States. But earlier ...

Through vulnerability analytics, AI can highlight populations more likely to struggle with recovery, including plantation ...

The U.S. faced 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2025, totaling $101.4 billion in damages, according to data from Climate Central. January's Los Angeles ...

"This dataset was simply too important to stop being updated." For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's billion-dollar disaster dataset put a dollar figure on the cost of ...

The United States is home to millions of small businesses that form the backbone of countless communities. Even during the best of times keeping shops solvent can be a struggle, but when ...