(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – August 13, 2026

The following posts are useful for general awareness of current physical security threats, natural disaster resilience, preparedness resources, mitigation guidance, and other security-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Natural Hazards/Climate Change

• Severe thunderstorms, flash flooding to threaten Plains, Midwest and East – AccuWeather
• As new blazes emerge, crews battle nearly 200 wildfires across US – USA Today
• Why the Spokane wildfires became so catastrophic – Conversation
• Atlantic hurricane season likely to be very quiet, final Colorado State outlook says – Weather Channel
• Flash droughts pull ‘alarming’ amounts of moisture from the landscape and intensify wildfires: new research – Conversation

Operational Resilience

• Midyear Reality Check: How Accurate Have Our 2026 Water Predictions Been So Far? – Water Online
• FEMA says it’s providing water trailers to Puerto Rico amid water crisis – ABC News
• The Airspace Gap: Rethinking Security in a Drone-Enabled World – Security Management Magazine
• Just weeks before devastating wildfires hit, Spokane practiced a mass evacuation – the drill paid off – Conversation
• Arizona, California and Nevada would share cuts under federal proposal for Colorado River – PBS
• Chinese-Made Components on UK Naval Drone Cameras Sent Info to Beijing – Kyiv Post

Extremism/Terrorism

• Extremist 764 group allegedly linked to Southern California hospital bomb threat – Independent
• 2 Police Officers Stabbed in France’s Toulouse in Suspected Terror Attack – Homeland Security Today
• Artificial Intelligence, Ebola, and the Rising Threat of Jihadi Bioterrorism – Homeland Security Today
• Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Active Clubs Spread Propaganda on Meta-Owned Instagram – Counter Extremism Project