Hurricane Helene News
New App Tracked Coastal Flooding During Hurricane Helene
A web-based application that gathers crowdsourced data to identify flooding in coastal communities went live days before Hurricane Helene struck, allowing scientists to collect essential data during ...
Federal Flood Maps Are No Match for Florida’s Double Hurricane
Even before the second megastorm in as many weeks brings devastating floodwaters to the Southeast U.S., it's already clear that federal flood-risk maps underpinning ...
Verisk Estimates Up to $11B in Insured Losses From Hurricane Helene
The Extreme Event Solutions group at Verisk estimates insured losses due to wind, storm surge and flood in the U.S. for Hurricane Helene will range between $6 billion to ...
The Latest Hurricane Helene Insured Loss Estimates: Totals Move Higher
Early estimates of Hurricane Helene U.S. private insurance market losses in the $5 billion to $10 billion range have moved up higher in recent days, with Moody's RMS offering the latest estimates of ...
Where Are the Private Insurers? Analyses Highlight U.S. Flood Gap
Two new analyses—one from a risk modeler estimating insured damages from Hurricane Helene, and the other from a rating agency about flood insurance penetration and profitability—highlight the ...
Climate Change at Forefront of U.S. Presidential Campaign After Hurricane Helene
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign after the issue lingered on the margins for months. Vice President Kamala Harris ...Florida Communities Hit Repeatedly by Hurricanes Grapple With Whether to Rebuild
It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of Horseshoe Beach in ...
Nowhere in America Is Safe From Climate-Fueled Storms and Fires
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 U.S. last month, killing ...