Natural Disasters

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA, is an agency created to respond to disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and earthquakes. Here’s what you need to know.

Join NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 in our efforts to help those whose lives have been upended by storms, wildfires, floods and countless other crises.

There are an estimated one to two megaquakes a year across the globe, which have the power to completely destroy communities near their epicenter. Here’s what you need to know.

Multiple people dead and properties are destroyed throughout the Caribbean islands following Hurricane Beryl. A North Texas-based Caribbean organization says relief efforts are just beginning, as they gather information from island nation officials.

The head of the Homeland Security Department says the agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country is prepared as it goes into what is expected to be an intense hurricane and wildfire season.

Texans who suffered losses from the storms and flooding between April 26 and June 5 have until July 16 to apply for federal assistance.

FEMA is closing its Disaster Recovery Centers in Texas on June 19 to observe the Juneteenth federal holiday.

After hurricane-force winds tore through North Texas, FEMA has set up several disaster recovery centers. NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen has the details. 

More than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive following a landslide May 24, according to the Papua New Guinea government.

The International Organization for Migration has increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670. Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N. migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll is based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than...