USDA plans to send Emergency Relief Program and Emergency Livestock Relief Program pre-filled applications directly to eligible producers in early summer for those with qualifying disaster losses for ...

Weather-related production risks are unavoidable on the farm or ranch. From heavy rain and hail to snow, high winds and drought, farm families prepare their land, plant and harvest each season, fully ...

Overall losses were close to the average for the last five years, while insured losses were significantly above average (2017–2021: US$ 97bn). The continued high level of insured losses is impacting ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

On Oct. 27 USDA announced the allocation of more than $3 billion to support commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2022 through a modified continuation of the ...

2022 will go down as one of the most expensive weather disaster years on record. Last year saw everything from wildfires to tornados and unforgettable hurricanes like Nichole and Ian which resulted in ...

In one announcement after another this week, a grim accounting emerged of the world's extreme weather and climate disasters in 2022. The science leaves “no doubt” about the impacts of the warming ...

Destroyed houses and buildings are visible in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., after Hurricane Ian in September. Billion-dollar disasters caused by extreme weather and climate change rose across the U.S. in ...

North Dakota farmer Mike Rott surveys his drought-stricken crops. Farmers who bought crop insurance in 2022 will receive dramatically less in disaster aid than they have in recent years because of a ...

Countries all over the world saw one climate disaster after another this year. There were relentless heat waves, deep freezes, and hurricanes so destructive they caused billions of dollars worth of ...

Penny Gusner is a senior insurance writer and analyst at Forbes Advisor. For more than 20 years, she has been helping consumers learn how insurance laws, data, trends, and coverages affect them. Penny ...