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.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.

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.

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 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

FNC's Shannon Bream hosts Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, WSJ White House reporter Amy Linskey, Richard Fowler from Forbes, and law professor Horace Cooper, to discuss President Trump's plans to reform FEMA,

The president said the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been too bureaucratic and slow in its response to disasters.

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.”

At a Palisades fire town hall, leaders talk debris removal and disaster relief. Residents don't have to wait till debris is cleared to apply for permits to rebuild.

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