AccuWeather Says Storm Expected to Hit Gulf Coast to Become Category 3 Hurricane September 23, 2024 A weather service said a brewing storm headed toward the Gulf Coast is expected to become “a large hurricane with...
NHTSA Reports Decrease in Traffic Deaths: What’s Behind the Numbers? September 23, 2024 Highway fatalities have fallen 3.2% in the first half of the year from the same period in 2023, data from...
More Than 250,000 U.S. Properties Reported to Have Repeated NFIP Claims September 19, 2024 By Ezra Amacher More than a quarter million U.S. properties have repeated claims for federal flood insurance, costing the National Flood Insurance Program...
AccuWeather Estimates $7B in Damage and Economic Loss from North Carolina Storm September 18, 2024 AccuWeather on Wednesday issued a preliminary estimate of the total damage and economic loss from an unnamed storm that struck...
European Cities Brace for Peak of Floods as Cleanup Starts September 18, 2024 By Marton Eder, Piotr Bujnicki, Kevin Whitelaw and Irina Vilcu Cities from Budapest to Wroclaw in Poland are racing to build up their defenses as floodwaters peak over the coming...
Top of Travelers’ List of Most Common Wedding Insurance Claims Not So Surprising September 18, 2024 When something goes wrong at a wedding and a claim is filed, one of the most common reasons behind the...
U.S. Property Insurance Rates Fall for First Time Since 2017 September 18, 2024 By Alexandre Rajbhandari U.S. property insurance rates are decreasing for the first time in almost seven years, after insurers returned to profitability amid...
Hawaii Probe Finds No Single Factor Led to Maui Wildfire Losses September 16, 2024 By Mark Chediak No single factor led a fire in the seaside Hawaiian town of Lahaina last year to rage out of control...
A Continent Ablaze: South America Surpasses Record for Fires September 13, 2024 By ake Spring and Stefanie Eschenbacher South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in...
Cooler Weather Helping Fight Large Southern California Wildfire September 13, 2024 Cooler weather is aiding the fight against a large Southern California wildfire, one of three large fires in the region....