The month of December was dominated by flooding in Washington State and record-breaking snowfall throughout the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, and Northeast. With this final wrap-up, we say goodbye to 2025 and look forward to a fresh start in 2026.

Cold and flu season is here, the NTSB kept working during the shutdown, tornadoes, volcanoes, mind-reading algorithms, communities rebuilding in slow motion, and David Richardson’s acting career is over. November offered us a reminder that even when disasters are slow, things can still get weird.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on October 28th as a Category 5 hurricane, leaving devastation behind that’s “never been seen before.”

It’s the last day of September, so we may as well jump right in…The moon is rusting, Imelda and Humberto are hanging just offshore, the entirety of New England is suffering worsening drought conditions, and wildfire smoke could kill 70,000 Americans by 2050.

Occasionally we run into news, research, case studies or other useful things we find worth sharing. Check out our inaugural wrap-up, which coincides with National Preparedness Month.