Caitlin Wan Smith, an officer with Pew’s managing fiscal risks project, helped craft guidelines to help states budget for natural disasters. State governments are failing at comprehensively tracking ...

Congress approved a funding patch Wednesday without supplemental disaster money, even as Hurricane Helene bears down on Florida. A pair of destructive hurricanes along the Gulf Coast, an explosion of ...

With hurricane season still going strong, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says its disaster fund has run out of money. Traditionally, hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, ...

Due to ongoing budget cuts and a worsening drought, Hays County is facing an increase risk of wildfires. The Hays County ...

Los Angeles County, the most populated in the United States, has a paltry budget for its office that manages natural disasters, major emergencies and other hazards such as cyberattacks and earthquakes ...

Most of the money for disaster recovery will come from the federal government while the Federal Emergency Management Agency has pledged to reimburse South Carolina for 100 percent of its costs in the ...

Federal funding for North Carolina disaster response and mitigation is paused, putting pressure on the state to pony up more ...