Hurricane Irma

A large, slow-moving Category 4 storm like Hurricane Ian would push a catastrophic surge across much of coastal Miami-Dade many times worse — and extending much farther inland — than Irma did in 2017.

The small stone crabbing community flooded again, just five years after Irma pushed ashore a storm surge that coated the town with mud and destroyed homes.

Half a decade later, we look back at Irma’s impact and the changes in hurricane preparedness and response that it brought to Florida.

National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.

Researchers say the round-the-clock nature of storm reporting and increased exposure from phones and social media can fuel stress.

Navigating the Florida Keys can be a challenge — one that Hurricane Irma made even more difficult.

U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas last week ended the case after attorneys for The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills and the Department of Health and Human Services agreed to the dismissal.

A University of Miami study published this month found that while other sharks flee hurricanes, tiger sharks stayed put when Hurricane Matthew pounded the Bahamas in 2016.

A new study by the nonprofit news service Climate Central presents another grim outlook for the elderly in South Florida: more nursing homes and assisted living facilities at risk from flooding than other coastal states.

Researchers found that the number of nursing home deaths within 30 and 90 days of Hurricane Irma is more than double the number of deaths reported by the CDC for the entire population of Florida.

Monday’s decision came more than three years after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air-conditioning system at the nursing home.

The Florida Keys has been battered by hurricanes, flooded by sea level rise and is gentrifying quickly. But one state lawmaker from Naples wants to add…