Latest FEMA Headlines
All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
A Shrinking FEMA Puts Lake Town’s Rebuilding Plans in Limbo
Jun 26 2025 // LAKE LURE, North Carolina, June 17 (Reuters) – When Hurricane Helene’s flood waters slammed into Lake Lure’s century-old dam last September, gouging a massive scar into one embankment and cascading five...
South Padre, Texas Officials Worried About Potential FEMA Cuts
Jun 19 2025 // In the wake of the Trump administration’s announced plans to cut back on federal disaster spending, South Padre Island officials are concerned their beaches will be left vulnerable should a storm hit this hurricane...
‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency
Jun 17 2025 // Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response organization, according to a...
Trump Can’t End FEMA But It Needs Reform, Says Obama’s FEMA Head
Jun 17 2025 // President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to whittle down or phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and last week he gave a rough timeline for that: “after hurricane season.” “We...
Trump Says FEMA Phaseout to Begin After Hurricane Season
Jun 12 2025 // President Donald Trump said his team will move forward with winding down much of the Federal Emergency Management Agency—but not until after a hurricane season that some projections show could be particularly...
FEMA Head Said He Was Unaware of US Hurricane Season, Sources Say
Jun 3 2025 // Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with...
Trump Administration Is Rolling Out a New Way to Shrink FEMA’s Role
May 30 2025 // When a series of deadly storms and tornadoes pummeled Arkansas in mid-March, downing power lines and tearing up homes, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked the federal government for money to not only help repair the...
Trump Approves FEMA Disaster Relief for 8 States
May 27 2025 // President Donald Trump green-lit disaster relief for eight states on Friday, assistance that some of the communities rocked by natural disasters have been waiting on for months. The major disaster declaration approvals...
FEMA Senior Officials Exit as Trump Targets Agency
May 22 2025 // The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the departure of 16 senior executives on Wednesday, a significant shakeup of its leadership ranks less than two weeks before the start of what is expected to be a busy...
While FEMA Faces Overhaul, Mississippi Tornado Survivors Wait for Assistance
May 22 2025 // More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band. “I...
FEMA Chief Says Agency Will Raise State Burden for Disasters to 50%
May 15 2025 // David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Thursday that states would in the future bear half the costs for responding to natural disasters, up from 25% under current cost-sharing...
‘Don’t Get in My Way,’ the New Acting Head of FEMA Warns Staff
May 12 2025 // The new head of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country warned staff in a meeting Friday not to try to impede upcoming changes, saying that “I will run right over you” while...
Acting FEMA Chief Is Ousted After Less Than 4 Months
May 8 2025 // Less than a month before the start of hurricane season, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been fired. A spokesperson with FEMA offered no reason for the dismissal, but confirmed to...
Loss of FEMA Program Spells Disaster for Hundreds of Communities and Projects
Apr 30 2025 // The textile mills that once served as the backbone of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, have long been shuttered, and officials believed federal money would be key to the town’s overdue revitalization. They hoped an...
FEMA Denies Washington State Disaster Relief From Bomb Cyclone, Governor Says
Apr 16 2025 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied Washington state’s request for emergency relief funds to help repair an estimated $34 million in damage from a deadly bomb cyclone storm system in November,...
Judge Declines to Force FEMA to Release Funds to Upgrade US Emergency Alert System
Mar 20 2025 // A federal judge on Monday declined to force the Trump administration to immediately reimburse dozens of public broadcasting stations for upgrades to the nation’s emergency alert system. The nonprofit Corporation for...
Detroit Area CBP Director Charged in FEMA Fraud Scheme
Mar 19 2025 // A federal criminal complaint was unsealed today charging the Director of United States Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Center for Excellence and Expertise over Automotive and Aerospace Engineering with engaging...
FEMA Cancels Classes at National Fire Academy Amid Federal Funding Cuts
Mar 10 2025 // The country’s preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump’s...
FEMA to Borrow $2 Billion to Pay Flood Claims After Hurricanes Helene and Milton
Mar 10 2025 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in February that it needs to borrow $2 billion from the U.S. Treasury to cover claims from National Flood Insurance Program policyholders. FEMA, administrator of NFIP, said it...
Some in Helene-Hit North Carolina Embrace Trump’s Talk of Abolishing FEMA
Feb 18 2025 // SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Emily Russell remembers feeling hopeful after she managed to get an appointment with the Federal Emergency Management Agency not long after Hurricane Helene ripped though her home in Swannanoa,...
