Pilot project helps coastal homeowners gird for future storms (Opinion from the IBHS)

Pilot project helps coastal homeowners gird for future storms (Opinion from the IBHS)

The FORTIFIED program has provided the standards and third-party verification process for constructing, retrofitting and designating more than 500 disaster-resilient homes in recent years, including m...

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Spotlight shifts away from wind insurance costs, toward home mitigation at forum in Mobile

Spotlight shifts away from wind insurance costs, toward home mitigation at forum in Mobile

“If you’ve been through Mississippi after Katrina, they don’t have community in some of those places. We don’t want that to happen in Alabama.”

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Silverhill house gets revived after tornado strike

Silverhill house gets revived after tornado strike

When a tornado ripped the roof off Beth Lawrence's home in Silverhill on March 9, 2011 her first reaction was, "What am I going to do?" "I had let my wind coverage expire,"

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