Floodplain buyouts can reduce the financial toll of future disasters. But some small towns losing property and people are now saying no.

In order to get any funding through FEMA, each town or city in Vermont needs to have a local disaster prevention plan that the agency has approved. So, every year, ...

Missouri requested that FEMA authorize two types of disaster declarations: an emergency declaration, which is generally approved within days and releases up to $5 million of aid, and a major ...