Most Popular Windstorm Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Florida Storm Surge Swamps Nuclear Plant, Pro Golfer’s Home, Many More
Sep 30 2024 // Hurricane Helene’s storm surge along Florida’s western edges is being called the most devastating since 1921, responsible for destroying or heavily damaging hundreds of homes and businesses in the area. One of...
#2 Florida’s Citizens Suspends Binding on Policies as Another Storm Churns in the Gulf
Nov 6 2024 // Florida’s state-created Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the largest insurer in the state, suspended binding on policies, statewide, as yet another hurricane approaches from the Carribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico....
#3 Severe Storms Ravage South Texas, Leaving 3 Dead and Hundreds Stranded
Mar 31 2025 // Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down...
#4 Florida Commission Accepts Three New Flood Models as Storm Impacts Rise
Nov 14 2024 // As with computer models that help predict risk from hurricane winds, insurers now have more than one model to use when gauging flood damage in storm-soaked Florida. The Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection...
#5 Mutually Beneficial: How One Midwest Mutual Insurer Recovered From Financial Storms
Sep 24 2024 // When Iowa mutual GuideOne Insurance began assessing ways to add an infusion of capital to strengthen its balance sheet, the company went to the usual places a mutual of its size might turn to for financial...
#6 The Impact of 2 Storms and Claims Advice From a Second-Generation Insurance Agent
Oct 21 2024 // As if it were yesterday, I vividly remember going to my first catastrophic fire loss with my dad at the young age of nine. It was a house fire in Sarasota involving a resident falling asleep with a lit cigarette. The...
#7 KBRA Says Florida Insurers Will Weather the Storms; Cat Fund Can Handle Payouts
Nov 1 2024 // Florida’s Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, a state-created layer of reinsurance, expects to pay out about $4.6 billion to help cover insurers’ losses in Hurricanes Helene and Milton. But that won’t trigger a...
#8 AccuWeather: Severe Storms in Central US Cause $80-90B in Damages, Economic Loss
Apr 7 2025 // A multiday severe weather outbreak in the central U.S. caused an estimated $80 billion to $90 billion in total damage and economic loss, according to a preliminary estimate from AccuWeather. From April 2 to April 6, a rare...
#9 More Tornadoes, Fewer Meteorologists Make for a Dangerous Mix
May 27 2025 // As nasty tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode. The agency’s office in Jackson, Kentucky, had begun closing nightly as deep cuts by Elon Musk’s...
#10 More SE States Pushing Funding, Discounts for Stronger Roofs as Storms Increase
Jan 9 2025 // A residual property insurer and regulators in two Southeastern states are emphasizing roof integrity, more signs that mitigation and prevention are increasingly recognized as ways to reduce insured losses as storms...
#11 Nowhere in America Is Safe From Climate-Fueled Storms and Fires
Oct 4 2024 // Forecasters had warned for days that Hurricane Helene was likely to cause widespread devastation. But when the powerful storm struck Florida and barreled through the eastern US last week, killing more than 180 people and...
#12 Fourth Storm in 14 Months Takes Aim at West Florida. Citizens Most Exposed
Oct 7 2024 // Another day, another hurricane. That may be the thought in the minds of thousands of Floridians as Hurricane Milton makes its way toward the west coast of Florida – the fourth hurricane in 14 months to target the...
#13 With Back-to-Back Storms, Florida Now Facing Delays in Claims Adjusting
Oct 10 2024 // With Hurricane Milton now expected to produce several hundred thousand wind-damage claims and with the storm coming so soon on the heels of Hurricane Helene, industry leaders are bracing for significant delays in claims...
#14 Bill Would Move Storm Modeling, Research From FIU to FSU Insurance Supercenter
Mar 18 2025 // Florida International University has long been known as a hurricane research center. Think: the famous Wall of Wind, the giant fan system that tests the effects of 157-mph winds on structures and materials. A much larger,...
#15 Rain in Carolinas May Dampen Wildfires But Threat of Tornadoes, More Fires Looms
Mar 5 2025 // The Carolinas saw some much-needed rainfall Wednesday morning, helping to quell wildfires that had burned more than 2,600 acres – but also raising the threat of tornadoes. Even with the new rainfall, insurance and...
#16 The ‘Waffle House Index’ Helps Residents, FEMA Gauge a Storm’s Severity
Oct 16 2024 // Golden hashbrowns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of maple syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods. But when hurricanes tear through Southeastern towns, the hot meals and bold...
#17 Missouri DCI Estimates High Uninsured Rates in St. Louis Amidst Tornado Recovery
May 23 2025 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance released preliminary uninsured estimates for properties in the St. Louis in response to the F3 tornado that struck the region on Friday, May 16. DCI Department Director...
#18 Aon Launches US Severe Convective Storm Model
Sep 24 2024 // Just a few weeks after unofficially announcing that a new catastrophe model was in the works, Aon officially announced the launch of a model to analyze U.S. Severe Convective Storms this week. Paul Shedden, head of global...
#19 Cash-Flush Florida Seeks to Retire $1.7 Billion of Debt and Prepare for Storms
Feb 12 2025 // Municipal bonds sold by the state of Florida are poised to become much scarcer. That’s because Governor Ron DeSantis plans to pay down $1.7 billion of tax-supported debt as part of his budget proposal for the fiscal...
#20 Explorers Discover Wreckage of Old Cargo Ship That Sank in Lake Superior Storm
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
