In Focus

Any Category 3 hurricane making landfall near a major city is likely to cause devastating wind damage.

As a catastrophic weather event approaches, you want to have enough data to be prepared.

Climate scientists have confidence that warming temperatures are making some catastrophic events likelier.

Shortly before midnight on March 12, 1928, one of the dams supplying Los Angeles with water collapsed.

Spawned by severe thunderstorms, tornadoes are among the most destructive forces in nature.

Climate change is often blamed for catastrophes and many extreme weather events are seen as “black swans.”

Images of blazing multi-million-dollar mansions dominated the media after a wildfire in California.