Natural Hazards

Many federal grant programs require communities to provide a local match, creating barriers for rural and underserved places.

The United States is spending billions of dollars on suppressing wildfires that threaten a growing number of homes, but very little on better preparing communities before a wildfire occurs.

Green infrastructure can provide long-term, cost-effective solutions to flooding and can help communities adapt to climate change. We provide a cost breakdown for eight green infrastructure practices.

Montana’s mobile home residents face disproportionate flood risk and traditional solutions leave them behind.

Places with lower capacity are failing to get funding through FEMA’s flagship grant program, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC).

In light of rising wildfire risks, we analyzed the costs of constructing homes to three levels of wildfire resistance in California.

At least 1.2 million wood roofs are in areas with wildfire risk. Funding is needed to help communities prepare for wildfire.

Communities need resilient revenue strategies to fund the long-term costs of capital improvements and infrastructure.

Mobile homes are the most common unsubsidized, affordable housing in the United States but have disproportionately higher flood risk than other housing types.

Benefit-cost analysis, required for many federal funding sources, puts smaller, rural, and low-income communities at a disadvantage.