FEMA and NOAA officials are being forced to skip major hurricane and flood conferences ahead of disaster season because of Trump administration restrictions on travel for federal employees ...

Arizona doesn't typically get much disaster relief funding, which could tempt state officials to ignore risks of rare events.

Jennifer Smith, CommonWealth Beacon April 11, 2025 AT SOME POINT between February and early March, as seasonal wind and rain ...

whether it’s flood or wildfire… This level of risk is absolutely predictable.” Despite the well-predicted increase in disasters, Trump has expressed desire to close FEMA altogether, saying during a ...

published an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times citing ways FEMA could be improved and warning against simply abolishing it. “Spreading the risk and cost of disaster around the country is good ...

“This order empowers State, local, and individual preparedness and injects common sense into infrastructure prioritization and strategic investments through risk ... FEMA’s bureaucracy in ...

The cancellation is the Trump administration’s latest blow to FEMA, which provides tens of billions of dollars a year in disaster aid ... “reduce their hazard risk” and “build capacity ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has delivered preliminary flood maps for Cochise County, the City of ...

The state is already perennially near the bottom for receiving disaster-relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, largely because it isn’t at risk of hurricanes ...

The Trump administration this week began signaling plans to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other U.S. government agencies’ responses to natural disasters.