Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

Texas has the most diverse weather risk in the country, with exposure to nine different types of natural disasters. Yet,Texas trails most coastal states when it comes to instituting and enforcing ...

As my L.A. County Fire partner and I were trying to get ahead of the flames, we drove up a narrow road into a canyon neighborhood above the endless sea of homes in the flat valley below. Appropriately ...

More and more people are building their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites. As residential areas expand into relatively untouched wildlands, these ...