Governor Kim Reynolds has requested a Presidential Disaster Declaration for four Iowa counties following catastrophic severe weather, heavy rainfall, and flash flooding that took place between July 1 and July 4, 2026.

Homeowners, renters and students have until Monday, Aug. 31, to apply for federal disaster assistance if they had damage or losses from Tropical Storm Arthur.

“FEMA should be reformed but not abolished, and it’s encouraging to see an approach along those lines,” said Matt Calabria, who is the director of the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded the City of St. Louis a $2.9 million boost in tornado recovery funding to help with disaster case management.

Repeated disasters expose weaknesses in the systems that provide aid and help with recovery. Recognizing community disaster fatigue is an important step toward building enduring recovery systems.

Wildfires burning across Ontario have grown ‌to 735,000 hectares (1.8 million acres), from 650,000 hectares over the weekend, Premier Doug Ford said on Monday, as air quality from smoke improved in much of the province but remained unhealthy in parts of the U.S. Midwest.

Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday.

Governor Tate Reeves requested a Major Disaster Declaration from President Trump for eight counties impacted by severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flash flooding on June 18-19, 2026, from the remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas emergency management officials are warning residents along the state's elevated rivers to stay vigilant as recovery and rescue efforts continue following days of catastrophic flooding.

After her grandmother's house in Caracas narrowly survived last month's devastating back-to-back earthquakes, Alessandra Izaguirre was desperate to help Venezuela, joining thousands of volunteers in a large grassroots humanitarian effort based in Doral, Florida.

Flash flooding has been tearing up communities across the U.S., with heavy downpours sending creeks and rivers rushing over their banks from Texas to Kentucky, across the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast.

There are a lot of ways for disaster victims to get help in the immediate aftermath of a flood or fire, but the long-term recovery from a major disaster is a lot harder, and Congress is now moving toward its most significant overhaul of that system in years.

President Donald Trump announced he approved more than $846 million in disaster relief funds for Republican-leaning states in a series of posts on his social media platform, combining the announcements with praise for candidates he endorsed in those states' upcoming elections.

President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for Wisconsin, authorizing federal disaster assistance through FEMA to aid recovery efforts in areas impacted by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding from April 13-23, 2026.

In a long-awaited draft of the state budget, North Carolina lawmakers unveiled a $706 million package that would go toward Hurricane Helene recovery.

The Trump administration is approaching hurricane season with the smallest disaster workforce since 2021, a huge backlog of state aid requests and 15 vacancies in top emergency management jobs.

The government-built high-rise where Alberto Sánchez’s girlfriend lived toppled into a mass of concrete and steel when twin earthquakes hit this Caribbean coastal city last week. He spent four days digging through rubble for her and her family—and found no one.

Following a multi-day onslaught of destructive weather across the state, Indiana Governor Mike Braun declared a state of disaster emergency for 63 of Indiana's 92 counties.

Governor Greg Abbott certified that the severe storms beginning June 14, 2026, including heavy rainfall, flash flooding, hazardous wind gusts, large hail, and tornado threats, are causing widespread and severe property damage, injury, or loss of life across dozens of Texas counties.

House Financial Services Committee members of both parties Wednesday pushed back against a bipartisan Senate proposal to permanently authorize a federal disaster recovery program administered through the Department of Housing and Urban Development.