Q. Scholarly research and data on disasters?

University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center website

For statistics, see EM-DAT International Disasters Database which contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 22,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. Free registration is required.

Also see  SHELDUS.  County-level hazard loss data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard events types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornadoes. For each event the database includes the beginning date, location (county and state), property losses, crop losses, injuries, and fatalities that affected each county. Access requires a Princeton email account. Subscriptions only provide access to aggregated data. Aggregation is currently not available for named events, PDDs, and GLIDEs.

Storm Events Database. (NOAA). Currently contains data from January 1950 to October 2023, as entered by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS). Includes locations, fatalities, injuries, damage, and dates.

Also see Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (NOAA).

For disasters declared by FEMA see the FEMA site.

For disaster relief to businesses from the Small Business Administration see Disaster Loan Data and Superstorm Sandy.

Also see the international environmental data section of the Environment Guide for additional sources.