Jefferson County's EMA director says emergency response is primarily driven by local agencies and will continue to be.

As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins, all signs point to another above-average year for tropical activity.

There are places we shouldn’t be living. With federal disaster aid uncertain, states and localities should build voluntary ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane ...

President Donald Trump's plan to phase out FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season is drawing criticism and mixed reactions from ...

FEMA is “fully activated in preparation for Hurricane Season,” and is “shifting from bloated DC-centric deadweight to a lean, ...

FEMA paid more than $3.1 billion to Florida and its residents in federal grants, disaster loans and flood insurance payments ...

Experts have raised concerns about the administration’s calls to gut the agency, noting that it could leave vulnerable communities without adequate resources or coordination after a disaster.

States should lead their own disaster response, he said, suggesting he does not understand that states already do lead ...

The risk of a major hurricane, with winds of more than 111 mph, making landfall somewhere along the entire U.S. mainland ...

We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump told reporters, later saying, “A ...

USA TODAY spoke with National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan about what you should do to prepare for hurricane ...