Wildfires, raging floods, tornadoes and hurricanes can obliterate your home, but not your mortgage. The hard reality is that even when you live in a federally declared disaster area — like those ...

Recently I heard a presentation on post-earthquake building inspections, which led me to this FEMA post-disaster building safety evaluation document, which is two years old but still the most ...

It’s one thing to fix your home after something basic has gone wrong, but it’s a different beast to rebuild and recover after a major natural disaster has destroyed multiple properties on your ...

The problem with all that is, as Barnett and his colleagues showed in a 2012 review of the literature, almost no one actually builds kits.Well, perhaps fewer than half overall, but results varied ...

Natural disaster management (NDM) websites play an important role in assisting people through various disaster stages. However, such websites are complex and there is little research on standards and ...

And that agency notes that even if your home survives after a disaster but your job doesn’t, you may still be able to get forbearance. Free help will be available to assist you.