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More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge inundation.

Storm surge and rainfall flooding combined for 75 percent of all deaths in the U.S. from hurricanes, tropical storms or tropical depressions from 1963 to 2012.
 

Los Angeles became the first city in the nation to approve seismic standards for new cellphone towers.

 There are 30 tornado shelters all along the Kansas Turnpike. 

Federal regulators have cleared three of the nation’s largest property insurers to use unmanned aircraft to inspect ofrom hail-damaged roofs to collapsed buildings to flooded neighborhoods.

The U.S. Commerce Department suspended funding for the Los Angeles County emergency communications system. 

Spring is here. And it could not have come soon enough, after a particularly difficult winter for most of the U.S. Record-setting snow falls, flooding, and extreme cold temperatures plagued businesses, homeowners and travelers from November through March. Businesses shut down, flights were grounded, and many people were forced to hunker down and stay home.

The number cargo thefts in the U.S. fell last year compared to 2013, but the average value of the heists increased.

In 2016 FEMA will approve disaster-preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard-mitigation plans that address climate change. 

Despite extensive, persistent drought in the western United States, 2014 saw notably low numbers of wildfire incidents.