The FEMA Review Council’s big recommendations are postponed amid leaked reports of its draft report, while the My Safe Florida Home Program is touted as a model for insurance premium savings in …
2025’s hurricane outlook appears a little less intense than 2024, Fort Myers Beach may get back in FEMA’s good graces for flood insurance reductions, and Pinellas County gets special ‘Elevate Florida’ workshops …
FEMA’s on-again, off-again tougher flood rebuilding standard for federally funded projects is now halted once again. Effective March 25, 2025, FEMA stopped implementing floodplain management requirements under the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard Policy 206-24-005 …
The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) recently launched its much anticipated Elevate Florida program, the first residential mitigation program of its kind in the Sunshine State. FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie alluded to …
As Floridians scramble to rebuild after an eventful 2024 hurricane season, they’ll want to start several feet above flood level. Elevating homes above the base flood elevation – the level of high water in a so-called …
Ft. Lauderdale considers raising roadways as a last-ditch effort to alleviate chronic flooding, a new “Flood Hub” will soon assess flood vulnerability for every piece of vital infrastructure in Florida, and there’s a new …
Six months after Hurricane Idalia struck the Florida Big Bend region as a major Category 3 hurricane, FEMA and the federal government have provided more than $820 million to help with disaster recovery with more …
When it comes to mitigating flood risk, the brunt of the construction, management and administration falls to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect communities from extreme events. Levees, dams, floodwalls, floodgates and even hurricane barriers …
A big storm system brings more flooding to South Florida, Fort Lauderdale unveils plans to answer last April’s 25-inch deluge, and a Florida bill could require flood disclosures on all property sales in the state. …
There was just a passing reference to Hurricane Ian during a congressional hearing last week in which FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell was called to testify about FEMA’s disaster fund running out of money …
