1、 2024-Updated April 2025 For more information regarding this report,please visit the SIA Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Webpage HERE Further reference materials:SIA Public Safety Policy Webpage,click HERE SIA First Responders Guide for Satellite Communications,click HERE Prepared By:NATURAL

2、DISASTERS-SATELLITES TO THE RESCUE Satellites Play a Critical Role in Saving Lives and Providing Critical Services Before and After a Natural Disaster Photo by:Eugene Garcia/AP Satellites to the Rescue For 60 years,satellites have been helping save lives by sup-porting improved hurricane,tropical st

3、orm and other severe weather forecasting,prep-aration,search,rescue and recovery services as well as everyday utilities that become critically vital to citizens when a disaster strikes.WHEN NATURAL DISASTERS STRIKE Due to Recent Leaps in Innovation,Satellites are Providing More Data to Forecasters,E

4、mergency Planners and Responders than Ev-er Before.Satellites are Playing an Increasingly Critical Role in Saving Lives and Providing Services Before,During and After Weather Related Disasters Such as Hurricanes or Wildfires Since 2005,41 Atlantic hurricanes have hit the U.S.,causing more than 2,200

5、 casualties and damage estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.In 2024,Hurricanes Helene and Milton made landfalls in FL with catastrophic winds,storm surge,tornadoes and record flooding across parts of Florida,the southern Appalachians through the Carolinas.Preliminary World Mete-orologica

6、l Organization(WMO)data indicate He-lene was the deadliest U.S.cyclone since Katrina,with more than 150 direct fatalities.In Sept 2022,hurricanes devastated much of Fort Myers Beach.Two years earlier,a record-breaking 30 named cyclones and 12 storms made landfall in the continental U.S.(Above)Since