Firefighters working to keep more homes from burning on the edge of a mountain town in northern Arizona were treated to scattered showers and cooler temperatures early Friday, but the favorable weather was not expected to last as more ferocious winds were forecast to batter parts of Arizona and all of New Mexico through the weekend.

The National Weather Service estimates that a tornado that hit Bryan County, Georgia had winds of 185 mph (300 kph), making it the strongest twister in the United States so far this year.

As Hurricane Ida hurtled toward south Louisiana, Paulette Tybussek, a resident of Jefferson Parish, weighed her options: ‘Do you put your life at risk and stay? Or do you evacuate?’

The insurance and reinsurance industry loss from the conflict in Ukraine could exceed US $20 billion, according to Verisk-owned specialist claims and loss data unit PCS.

Winter Storm Uri rolled into Texas like nothing the state had ever seen before. Unprepared for such a freeze, the power grid shutdown.

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Senator Jeff Brandes (R-St. Petersburg) has formally asked his colleagues to support the call he made to hold a special legislative session to focus on the Florida property insurance crisis.

A fourth insurer has gone belly-up in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath. Louisiana’s Department of Insurance took over Lighthouse Property Insurance Corporation in a court-ordered receivership last week, making it the fourth financially troubled insurer to require rescue in recent months.

Two people have died in the McBride Fire raging in New Mexico that has scorched more than 5,000 acres in the Sierra Blanco mountain range, police said.

Large swaths of the central U.S. were bracing for severe weather Wednesday after at least 23 people were injured Tuesday evening when a tornado hit central Texas.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation’s largest utility, has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires sparked by its aging Northern California power lines and submit to five years of oversight in an attempt to prevent more deadly blazes.

It took San Jose and mutual aid firefighters more than six hours to get a San Jose Home Depot fire under control just before midnight on Sunday -- at its peak 110 crews were battling the 5-alarm blaze.

Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-run ‘insurer of last resort,’ is proposing an across-the-board rate hike of nearly 11%, the highest increase allowed by law. The request comes as Florida’s private property insurance market sinks deeper into turmoil, insurance industry analysts said, driven in part by roof-replacement fraud and widespread litigation.

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After a disaster, Louisianans are running into problems with their insurance companies sending dozens of adjusters to their case -- leading to major delays in support. Some legislation is looking to tackle that problem despite insurance companies raising objections.

After back-to-back tornado outbreaks two weeks in a row, last month set the record for most tornado reports during the month of March. As of Friday morning, the current preliminary number was 233 tornado reports, breaking the record of 225 reports in 2012, with records going back to the year 2000.