(TLP:CLEAR) Supplemental General Security & Resilience Highlights – July 31, 2025

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 storms and flooding to escalate across Eastern US – AccuWeather
• Residents warned of expected power outages for multiple areas near Monroe Canyon Fire – Fox 13 (Salt Lake City)
• Crews struggle to contain wildfire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon – AP
• Tsunami warnings fading after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. Here’s what to know – AP
• Minimal U.S. effects from tsunami don’t mean the forecast was inaccurate – NBC News
• Tropics may ramp up soon as Atlantic hurricane season enters next phase – AccuWeather
• Rain, flash floods likely in Northeast. Here’s where chances are greatest – USA Today
• Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America – Conversation
• A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared. – Washington Post
• The deadliest floods in U.S. history – Yale Climate Connections
• Wildfires: The Growing Public Health Threat – Domestic Preparedness

Operational Resilience

• New Study Explores Emergency Management Agency Challenges, Staffing Shortfalls, and Need for Standardization – Homeland Security Today
• U.S. Billion-Dollar Disasters: 1980-2024 – Climate Central
• Designing Water Facilities For Resilience: Where Safety, Technology, And Training Intersect – Water Online
• Cuts to Early Warning Systems Are Leaving the U.S. Unprepared for Summer Floods – Council on Foreign Relations
• The surprising reasons floods and other disasters are deadlier at night – Grist
• US electricity demand to grow 2.5% annually through 2035: BofA Institute – Utility Dive
• Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Sabotage—but This Takes Skill and Specialist Equipment – RAND
• Active Assailants: Midtown Manhattan Shooter and Other Incidents – Security Management Magazine
• Poland says Russian secret service hired Colombian for arson attacks – Reuters
• Dealing with wildfires requires a whole-of-society approach – Conversation

Extremism/Terrorism

• CENTCOM Forces Kill Senior ISIS Leader in Al-Bab, Syria – U.S. Central Command
• US ground raid captures Islamic State leader in northern Somalia – Long War Journal
• Authorities seek to file terrorism and assault charges against suspect in Walmart knife attack – AP
• Domestic Extremists Exploit Targeted Attacks – New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness
• Belgium monitoring two members of satanic neo-Nazi terror network – The Brussels Times
• Extremist Content Online: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Releases Guide Praising June Boulder, Colorado Attack – Counter Extremism Project