As evidenced by Hurricane Laura and other significant events, including the flooding in the Midwest last year, floods pose a serious risk to property owners across the country.

Wildfires fanned by high winds burned hundreds of thousands of acres in the Northwest, mostly destroying a small town in eastern Washington state and causing evacuations, power outages and highway closures in Oregon.

Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, and the danger for more destruction is so high the U.S. Forest Service announced today it was closing all eight national forests in the southern half of the state.

Despite recent public health considerations, data and news reports show construction and sales of luxury single-family homes as a percentage of overall market share has grown over the past several years.

I’ve given up all hope of trying to assess hail damage to asphalt shingle roofs during home inspections. It’s a game.

State Farm, the largest homeowner insurer in Louisiana by market share, has received 24,800 insurance claims from homeowners across the state after Hurricane Laura barreled through the Lake Charles region last week.

As wildfires burn homes across California, the state is also grappling with a different kind of climate predicament: How to stop insurers from abandoning fire-prone areas, leaving countless homeowners at risk.

Containment continues to grow on a group of wildfires that have chewed through hundreds of thousands of acres in five Northern California counties.

A Vacaville home known for its incredible antique collections is nothing but ashes after flames took down an entire neighborhood.

A proposal from State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, that would streamline residential insurance claims for victims of disasters such as wildfires passed the legislature today with bipartisan support.

Hurricane Laura is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US Gulf Coast, but its path avoided major cities such as Houston and New Orleans, causing less damage — to people and their towns — than initially feared.

Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana near the Texas border early Thursday as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph.

As Hurricane Laura bears down on the Gulf Coast, residents are preparing for what could be a historic storm surge.

Hurricane Laura was expected to rapidly strengthen to a Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday on a steady track to hit the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast after dark, causing catastrophic damage, the National Hurricane Center said.

Residents in Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas, were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Laura strengthens in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is forecast to make landfall Wednesday night as a major Category 3 hurricane with winds of up to 115 mph in eastern Texas.