With estimated damages of $16.3 billion, Hurricane Charley became the second costliest hurricane in U.S. history at the time.

Babcock Ranch, described as the first sustainable community in the U.S., was designed and built to hopefully withstand a Category 4 hurricane. It was built in Southwest Florida. FOX 35 meteorologist T ...

The scenario was imagined but plausible: A category 4 hurricane has devastated Fire Island. New York City's elite search and rescue team, Task Force One, has been activated. The roads have washed ...

A major hurricane has sustained winds of at least 111 miles per hour and is classified as either a Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. An average tropical weather season in the ...

Hurricane Helene made landfall late Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane about 10 miles west-southwest of Perry in Taylor County. The storm is currently sustaining winds of 140 mph and is moving ...

Beryl — the first hurricane of the 2024 season — intensified Sunday into a high-octane, "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm packing life-threatening winds as it barreled toward the Caribbean.

FEMA denied North Carolina's request for the agency to match 100% of the state funds for Hurricane Helene cleanup, according to a letter.

How much damage can a Category 1 hurricane do vs. a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale? Plus examples ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Most years we say it could happen here. In 2024, it did. The worst storms were Helene and Milton. Two ...

A gustnado destroyed an RV park in Cameron, a coastal Louisiana town near the landfall of two hurricanes in 2020.

Hurricane Helene, arguably the worst natural disaster in state history, killed 107 and did an estimated $60 billion in damage ...

The scale has been in use for decades and gives an idea about what kind of wind damage a hurricane can produce, but it says ...