The Recovery Brief
Declarations, policy changes, and appeal decisions affecting FEMA Public Assistance, with a source link on every item.
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Declarations, policy changes, and appeal decisions affecting FEMA Public Assistance, with a source link on every item.
Declaration data comes from FEMA's OpenFEMA API. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What the Recovery Brief Covers.
The Recovery Brief collects FEMA Public Assistance developments from primary and established sources. Each item shows a title, a short summary, the date, and a link to the original document.
Sources by topic
- Declarations: FEMA’s OpenFEMA declarations data.
- Policy and guidance: the Federal Register and FEMA news releases.
- Compliance, oversight, and appeals: U.S. Government Accountability Office reports and FEMA’s Public Assistance second appeals data.
- Recovery news: Government Technology’s Emergency Management coverage and Route Fifty.
- Storms: National Hurricane Center advisories, shown on this page while a system is active.
Weekly editions
Each week, the prior week’s policy, oversight, appeals, and recovery news items are gathered into one edition, grouped by topic. Recent editions:
For declared areas and dates, see the Active Disasters board. For each state’s recipient agency, see the State Directory.