FEMA and the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) recently published a new guide, The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and Hazard Mitigation Plan Alignment, which can help communities align hazard mitigation plans with Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) to help them be more resilient from natural hazards.
FEMA has announced an alternative cost-effectiveness methodology for two annual grant programs that increases program accessibility to ensure hazard mitigation funding reaches more communities.
EPA’s Creating Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU) program just published a new Adaptation Case Studies Map for Water Utilities, which allows users to explore resilience case studies from water sector utilities across the country.
This week, EPA’s Creating Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU) program released a new climate data map on snowpack change in the Western U.S. The map provides water managers with snowpack and precipitation data and information on how snowpack conditions in the Western U.S. could vary due to changes in climate.
FEMA has released the Local Elected and Appointed Officials Guide: Roles and Resources in Emergency Management guide, which is intended to make it easier for senior officials to understand, prepare for and execute their leadership responsibilities. FEMA is also hosting a series of 60-minute webinars on the guide.
September 27, 2022
Critical Infrastructure Restoration Continues in Puerto Rico and Canada from Destructive Hurricane Fiona
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new method to assess the probability of extreme drought conditions in several different regions of the U.S. over the remainder of the century. Specifically, the researchers devised a new technique to better understand and forecast “flash drought” events.
As the world continues to warm from human-caused climate change, rain patterns and the timing of the melting snowpack is also changing – impacting the amount of water available and making resources harder to manage.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released its first, comprehensive Strategic Plan, intended to guide its efforts over the next three years. CISA notes the Strategic Plan focuses on how the agency and its partners will collectively reduce risk and build resilience to cyber and physical threats to the nation’s infrastructure.
This week, FEMA updated its Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool (RAPT). RAPT is a free online planning tool that gives open access to powerful data and GIS mapping to help organizations and communities inform strategies for emergency preparedness, response, and recovery and understand their resilience needs. The latest update of RAPT includes new resilience indicators, the latest data from the U.S Census Bureau, and improved analysis tools.
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