Wildfires in California have burned a record 4 million acres since the start of 2020, charring more land in the past nine months than during the previous three years combined. The results are devastating.

More evacuations were ordered Thursday in Northern California as wildfire-weary residents braced for a return of powerful winds that could stoke a blaze burning in the region’s wine country.

A dear friend of mine starts out coinsurance conversations (yes, we actually sit around and talk about this sort of thing, usually with a malted adult beverage) with the following disclaimer/statement/warning: "Coinsurance is evil and must be destroyed."

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), part of the Department of Commerce, released a report in May predicting a strong chance of a busy Atlantic hurricane season this year. So far, that prediction has held true.

Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, the insurance industry continues to adjust to changes and new ways of handling insurance claims.

Five months after an Easter night tornado sent trees crashing through her roof and rain cascading into her kitchen, Lauren Cameron’s home was still draped in blue tarps, wide open to the weather.

Cannabis farmers in the communities of Post Mountain and Trinity Pines, California are refusing to evacuate their cultivation sites even as the August Complex wildfires close in and weather forecasters predict more fire-friendly conditions, the Associated Press reports.

Two thousand people in California’s Napa Valley wine growing area have been ordered to evacuate their homes, and another 3,000 have been told to prepare to, amid rapidly-spreading wildfires which have destroyed at least one winery.

Catastrophe risk modeller RMS has estimated that total insured losses from Hurricane Sally in the US will be between $2.0 billion and $3.5 billion.

Federal investigators are looking into whether a huge wildfire burning in the mountains near Los Angeles was sparked by Southern California Edison utility equipment, according to the company.

When a 1,500-yard-wide tornado tore through the Chattanooga area just before midnight on Easter, thousands of buildings were devoured in a matter of minutes, leaving locals to rebuild their homes and lives.

On 16 September, Hurricane Sally made landfall on Wednesday near Mobile Bay, Ala., and the western portion of the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 storm with destructive winds of 105 mph, causing significant rain and storm surge.

The count of structures lost to the Almeda fire keeps growing, with more than 2,800 now tallied as having been destroyed by the fire, Jackson County Sheriff Nate Sickler reported Friday afternoon.

Tropical storm conditions will spread over the Texas coast on Monday as Tropical Storm Beta churns toward landfall, even as the storm is already bringing flooding to low-lying areas.

California’s insurance commissioner announced a plan to tackle the state’s wildfire insurance crisis Wednesday, saying the state will collaborate with the industry to develop standards for “hardening” homes and communities against fire risk.