President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish the FEMA Review Council, which will be tasked with reviewing several aspects of the agency for drastic improvements.

As part of the disaster assistance process done by FEMA, proper documentation for both ownership and occupancy of damaged residences is needed.

FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.

More than three years after Hurricane Ida devastated south Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency this month finally signed off on the first tranche of home elevation disaster grants for

About 40 people gathered at Pack Square Plaza downtown at Jan. 24 to demand an extension of FEMA's Transitional Sheltering Assistance program.

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued existence was vital to the country's disaster response efforts, after President Donald Trump said he wanted to overhaul or scrap it.

More than 600,000 Harris County residents applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency aid after Hurricane Beryl devastated the area in July 2024, marking a record number of aid applications following any disaster in the county's recent history.

President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at revamping the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in the latest sign he's seeking to change how the agency handles disasters that hit the nation.

Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”

President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday during a trip to tour damage from Hurricane Helene flooding in North Carolina, a state he’s said “has been abandoned by the Democrats.

President Donald Trump said that his administration will step in and assist North Carolina as it recovers from Hurricane Helene months after the storm.