Federal disaster assistance is now available to Tennesseans following April's severe storms. Here's what to know and how you ...

Cuts, chaos, and climate change are converging to leave Americans more vulnerable to disaster than they were in 2005.

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The gulf is eerily quiet. That's one consolation weeks into what's expected to be a busier than usual Atlantic hurricane ...

In a newly revealed March memo, officials proposed ways to dramatically curtail the US government’s disaster response role, ...

Jeremy Greenberg was in charge of coordinating federal help after hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and other emergencies.

Hawaii’s hurricane outlook calls for a below-normal season, but ongoing cuts to the federal government have U.S. Rep. Jill ...

A developing tropical cyclone is given a name when it reaches sustained winds of 39 mph, and it becomes a hurricane at 74 mph ...

The Disaster Recovery Reform Act allocates 15% of disaster payouts, about 6% of FEMA’s budget, to state resilience efforts, ...

Despite the state's experience and expertise, Florida has historically has relied on tens of billions of recovery dollars provided by FEMA.

"Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke," Representative Bennie Thompson said in a statement to Reuters. "If you don't ...