Latest Natural Disasters Headlines
All the headlines from our Natural Disasters Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurer Helps Develop Hurricane Plan for Newport’s Picturesque Mansions
May 25 2007 // Perched on the picturesque Rhode Island coastline, the 11 Newport Mansions are a national treasure. Once a summer getaway for the country’s wealthiest industrialists, today the historic mansions are a tourist...
Citizens Approves Liquidity Plan for 2007 Fla. Hurricane Season
May 25 2007 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board of governors approved a $1.95 billion financing plan that includes a letter of credit and bond sales to cover future hurricane losses in Florida. “A great deal has been...
Detailed Database of Global Terrorism Attacks Now Available Online
May 25 2007 // What researchers say is the world’s largest unclassified database of terrorism attacks is now available online for general use by researchers, policy-makers, media and the general public. The Global Terrorism...
Ala.: Sumter County Wildfire Apparent Arson
May 25 2007 // A wildfire apparently intentionally set scorched more than 700 acres in a remote area of Sumter County and sent heavy smoke over Alabama Highway 17, forcing an overnight traffic detour. Firefighters battled the flames for...
Fla. Plaintiffs Settle with State Farm on Hurricane Damaged Screen Enclosures
May 25 2007 // A Broward County Court has approved a class action settlement on behalf of more than 12,000 State Farm Insurance policyholders in Florida who will receive 100 percent of the damages they requested in a $6.8 million...
Easley: N.C. National Guard Could Handle Category 3 Hurricane
May 24 2007 // Gov. Mike Easley said he is comfortable the state could respond to a major hurricane strike, even though he has complained often that the demands of the Iraq War has left the North Carolina National Guard stretched too...
Gov. Proclaims Hurricane Preparedness Week in North Carolina
May 23 2007 // Gov. Mike Easley has proclaimed May 20-26 as “Hurricane Preparedness Week” and urged all citizens to prepare for this year’s predicted increase in storm activity by assembling disaster preparedness kits...
NOAA Predicts Busier-Than-Average East, Gulf Coast Hurricane Season
May 23 2007 // U.S. weather officials are the latest to predict above average hurricane activity for the Atlantic states this coming hurricane season that begins June 1. Experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
RMS Parametric Model for Japan Typhoon Risk Securitization
May 23 2007 // Risk Management Solutions has designed the trigger mechanism and performed the risk analysis for a parametric securitization of typhoon risk in Japan. Issued by Akibare Ltd., a Cayman Islands special purpose vehicle (SPV),...
Ga. Gov. Releases $7 Million to Fight Southeast Georgia Wildfires
May 22 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue issued an executive order that allocates $7 million in unspent state funds to fight the wildfires in southeast Georgia. The fires have burned over 130,000 acres in Georgia. “These additional funds...
Officials Plan for Fewer Hurricane Hunter Flights this Season
May 22 2007 // Although forecasters predict an active hurricane season, federal officials said crews will fly fewer hurricane hunter flights from the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.. Officials hope that reducing flights will make...
Fla. Agents Send Response Vehicle to Tornado-ravaged Kan. Town
May 22 2007 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ state-of-the-art catastrophe response vehicle (CRV) arrived in Greensburg, Kan. earlier this week to assist insurance agents whose offices were demolished by the tornado...
Forecasters to Test 3-D Radar Hurricane Tracking Technique
May 21 2007 // Forecasters will test a new technique this summer that provides a detailed 3-D view of an approaching hurricane every six minutes and allows them to determine whether the storm is gathering strength as it nears land. The...
Fire outlook: 2007 wildfire season looks wicked
May 21 2007 // Fire scientists are predicting an above-average wildfire season from May through August 2007, according to the National Interagency Fire Center Predictive Services Group based in Boise, Idaho. In its “National...
Wildfires take major toll in Georgia, Florida
May 21 2007 // Officials closed a 35-mile stretch of Interstate 75 from the Georgia-Florida state line to Lake City, Fla., as well as a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 10, from U.S. 90 to U.S. 129, as a gigantic wildfire approached them...
Spring wildfires, floods wreak havoc from coast to coast
May 21 2007 // Nature’s fury made life miserable from one end of the United States to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires near both coasts and the Canadian border and by major flooding in the Midwest. And...
Wildfires take major toll
May 21 2007 // Officials closed a 35-mile stretch of Interstate 75 from the Georgia-Florida state line to Lake City, Fla., as well as a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 10, from U.S. 90 to U.S. 129, as a gigantic wildfire approached them...
EMC Insurance reports tornado losses at $21 million
May 21 2007 // EMC Insurance Cos. said it expects to see losses of up to $21 million from storms in May, including devastating tornadoes that killed at least 11 people in Kansas. Des Moines-based EMC insures several businesses and homes...
Hurricane Chief: Millions Wasted on NOAA Publicity Campaign
May 21 2007 // The federal government is spending millions of dollars on a publicity campaign while its hurricane forecasters are struggling with budget cuts, according to the National Hurricane Center’s director. The National...
State Farm Claims at $12 Million After Deadly Kansas Tornado
May 21 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. has paid out about $12 million in claims with more still coming in after a Kansas tornado that destroyed a town two weeks ago and killed at least a dozen people, the company said. Home and auto...
