In The Wake of Devastating LA Fires, Residents Begin to Rebuild May 5, 2025 By Alex Veiga Nearly four months after wildfires reduced thousands of Los Angeles-area homes to rubble and ash, some residents are starting to...
New Jersey Wildfire Is Tied to Arson as Firefighters Make Gains April 24, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Mary Hui Firefighters in New Jersey made progress against a blaze that threatened to become the state’s largest in 18 years, while...
Forecast Calls for Wildfires to Burn More Land Across U.S. This Year April 23, 2025 A Long-range forecast predicts wildfires will burn more land across the U.S. this year, with a potentially active spring in...
Aon Reports Global Natural Disasters Cost Insurers $53B in Q1, With Economic Losses of $83B April 22, 2025 Global natural catastrophes had an insured price tag of more than $53 billion during the first quarter of 2025, with...
LA Wildfires Had Little Impact on Reinsurer Risk Appetite During April Renewals April 10, 2025 By L.S. Howard Property-catastrophe capacity remained adequate to meet demand during the April 1 renewals for U.S. reinsurance buyers, despite the record losses...
Tariffs Threaten to Push US Home Insurance Rates Even Higher April 8, 2025 By Leslie Kaufman With the Los Angeles fires in January and last week’s severe storms that brought flooding and tornadoes to the Midwest,...
AccuWeather: Severe Storms in Central US Cause $80-90B in Damages, Economic Loss April 7, 2025 A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage...
Hedge Funds Are Hunting Deals in Risks Too Big for Insurers April 7, 2025 By Natasha White As Los Angeles residents digested the apocalyptic scene left by wildfires earlier this year, the stage was simultaneously being set...
Deadly Storms Bring Flooding and Destruction to Central US April 3, 2025 By Brian K. Sullivan Deadly storms and flooding rains left a path of destruction across 14 states in the U.S. South and Midwest, knocking...
AI Beats Traditional Weather Models in Forecasting Wildfires April 3, 2025 By Joe Wertz Artificial intelligence is improving the accuracy of fire forecasts made by Europe’s top intergovernmental weather center. Traditional fire forecasts are...