Every county was evaluated with a FEMA-designated Hurricane Risk Score out of 100 for each category and overall ranking. The overall score of each county is the average of its score across all metrics. West Coast counties were excluded from this study as FEMA doesn’t provide hurricane risk scores for the Eastern Pacific Basin.

Former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are speaking out against the thousands of cuts made to the federal agency. This weekend, since it's officially hurricane season,

Forecasters within NOAA’s Weather Service predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin this year.

Accuracy will be crucial again in 2025, as meteorologists predict another active Atlantic hurricane season, yet cuts in staffing and threats to funding at NOAA are diminishing operations that forecasters rely on.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it will hire for “mission-critical field positions” amid expert warnings that the weather service is too short-staffed to warn people of the dangers of the upcoming extreme weather season.

All NOAA weather radio transmitters in Central Texas will be off air Monday through Wednesday as part of a software update.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted “above-normal” hurricane activity this summer in its annual outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

As we face another hurricane season, NOAA hurricane hunters are preparing their fleet and testing out new technologies.

Atlantic hurricane season 2025 is almost here and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a "confluence of factors" are set to fuel tropical cyclones in coming months. NOAA ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The National Weather Service Huntsville will conduct major system upgrades this week, taking NOAA Weather Radio transmitters offline from June 3 through June 5. Regular warning and forecast services will continue through other channels during the three-day outage affecting all NWR transmitters in North Alabama.