This week, FEMA released its landmark study, “Building Codes Save: A National Study,” featuring an in-depth look at the quantified benefits—avoided losses to buildings and building contents—from ...

A report cited by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in her critique of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Wednesday was subject to “gross manipulation,” according to one of the study ...

Damage from the Jan. 7, 2020, 6.4 Magnitude earthquake in Ponce, Puerto Rico. (Photo by Liz Roll/FEMA) FEMA released the “Building Codes Save: A Nationwide Study,” which highlights and uses big data ...

Jan. 31--MIDDLETOWN-- Gary Ledgerwood remembers when the floods subsided in the neighborhood where he grew up. There had been standing water in his North Middletown yard in the first few years after ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A new flood risk rating system could mean the price of protecting your home could soon become much more expensive. The National Flood Insurance Program covers more than 5 million ...

It’s been a stressor from the get-go, flood victims trying to financially hold on as they wait on a FEMA buyout. And now, a new study out of the Natural Resources Defense Council that points to long ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2022: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) today released a statement following FEMA publicly ...

A first-of-its-kind study by the Federal Emergency Management Agency shows that modern building codes are averting $1 billion a year in structural damage in California and Florida, the nation's most ...

With a major overhaul of the nation’s flood insurance program just months away, new data released Monday by the First Street Foundation suggests hundreds of thousands of homeowners in the riskiest ...