Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

The rise in power shutdowns triggered by severe weather due to deteriorating climate
change has expedited the research in enhancing community resilience. Several researchers …

Population growth, economic development, and rapid urbanization in many areas have led
to increased exposure and vulnerability of structural and infrastructure systems to hazards …

Severe weather-induced power outages affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars
of economic losses each year. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners …

Forecasting severe hail accurately requires predicting how well atmospheric conditions
support the development of thunderstorms, the growth of large hail, and the minimal loss of …

Power outages caused by extreme weather events cost the economy of the United States
billions of dollars every year and endanger the lives of the people affected by them. These …

Hurricanes regularly cause widespread and prolonged power outages along the US
coastline. These power outages have significant impacts on other infrastructure dependent …

This paper introduces new developments in an outage prediction model (OPM) for an
electric distribution network in the Northeastern United States and assesses their …

Several disastrous storms, such as Hurricane Sandy in 2012, that brought massive area
power outages for several days and even weeks in some areas, highlight the necessity of …

The objective of this article is to systematically assess and identify factors affecting risk
disparity due to infrastructure service disruptions in extreme weather events. We propose a …