Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they’re concerned about natural disasters, yet 6 in 10 admit they don’t have a disaster plan because they don’t think it will happen to them, according to a new Allstate study. 

Bay County in Florida will receive the final version of its $6.9-billion action plan for Hurricane Michael recovery this week.

In 2018, the U.S. experienced 14 billion-dollar-plus natural disasters, which caused approximately $90.9 billion in losses, the fourth-highest cost since 1980, according to the U.S. Household Disaster Giving in 2017 and 2018 report.

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year. 

An early forecast from scientists at Colorado State University's (CSU) Tropical Meteorology Project says that a weak or moderate El Niño is likely by the height of the Atlantic hurricane season, which means that the 2017 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have slightly below average activity.

Social networks such as Twitter may be used for monitoring, assessing and even predicting damage caused by natural disasters in just a few hours.

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.