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  2. List of tornado-related deaths at schools - Wikipedia

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    Fifth is Georgia with 3 tornadoes. Sixth are Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Nebraska, Mississippi, and Arkansas, each with 2 events. One school fatality tornado event has occurred in Ohio, Louisiana, Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New York (although this event was probably a downburst instead of a ...

  3. Natural disaster - Wikipedia

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    A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. The term "disaster" itself is defined as follows: "Disasters are serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceed its capacity to cope using its own resources.

  4. Lists of disasters - Wikipedia

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    A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. These lists are lists of natural disasters: List of avalanches; List of blizzards; List of derecho events; List of droughts; Lists of earthquakes; List of fires. List of wildfires; List of California wildfires; List of floods. History of ...

  5. Study offers troubling news for today's kids [Video] - AOL

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    A new study finds that if global temperatures continue to rise at their current pace, today’s kids will see three times the number of climate disasters as did their grandparents.

  6. Natural Disasters Are Getting Worse, But So Is FEMA Aid - AOL

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    According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, in 2021 there were 20 natural disasters exceeding $1 billion in damage each. With this increase in disasters, government aid is ...

  7. List of natural disasters in the United States - Wikipedia

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    7 (+3 indirect) $2.2-5 billion Hurricane Idalia: Florida: 2023 Wildfire: 110 ~$6 billion (as of August 12) 2023 Hawaii wildfires: Hawaii: 2023 Tornado outbreak: 33 $4.3 billion Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023: Southern United States, Midwestern United States: 2023 Tornado outbreak: 25 $1.9 billion Tornado outbreak of March 24 ...

  8. List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    August 3, 1936: 3. 453 Cloquet fire [73] Minnesota, United States October 12, 1918: 4. 418–476 Great Hinckley Fire: September 1, 1894: 5. 282 Thumb Fire: Michigan, United States September 5, 1881: 6. 240 1997 Indonesian forest fires [74] [75] Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia September 1997: 7. 160–300 1825 Miramichi fire: Canada: October 7 ...

  9. Disaster - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 November 2024. Event resulting in major damage, destruction or death For other uses, see Disaster (disambiguation). Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States A disaster is an event that causes serious harm to people, buildings ...