Waterfront Alliance: In 2012, Hurricane Sandy wreaked devastation upon New York, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and billions of dollars in damages.
Bangkok Biz News: Americans are making their home ownership dreams come true by buying affordable “flood zone” homes, driving sales up nearly 24% over the past 8 years
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Arch Daily: While some communities face extreme heat, others brace for storms and rising waters, and many face multiple impacts.
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Insurance Rate Reporter: Rebuild by Design, a research project from New York University (NYU), recently published the Atlas of Accountability interactive map. The atlas is available online, allowing users to search an address or select a county to see how many federal disasters have hit that area from 2011 to 2023. They can also view
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The Xylom: Although Georgia has seen the lowest number of major disaster declarations over the last decade among the Southeastern states, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense. The state saw more than twice as many severe storms in 2023 than any other
Vermont Biz: We’ll begin with an interactive briefing on Rebuild by Design’s Atlas of Accountability, a new virtual tool that allows users to identify past federal disaster declarations and recovery funding for climate-driven events county-by-county. This interactive map is designed to help local leaders and policymakers understand their exposure to extreme weather disasters and the
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NHPR: Lyndonville and the surrounding Northeast Kingdom communities aren’t alone in being on that road. By at least one count, Washington County — home to Montpelier — is now tied for being the second-most disaster prone county in America. That’s if you count the number of federal disaster declarations from 2011 through 2023, as the
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Maine Public: By at least one count, Washington County — home to Montpelier — is now tied for being the second-most disaster prone county in America. That’s if you count the number of federal disaster declarations from 2011 through 2023, as the think tank Rebuild by Design did.
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Clover Leaf: Ninety percent of counties in the US have endured floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or other natural disasters since 2011, according to a report by Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting communities in preparing for and recovering from such catastrophes. This staggering statistic encompasses at least 29 states that have declared national
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: At its most basic, the goal of the Disaster Dollar Database is to start to make visible federal spending on uninsured losses in disaster recovery, at the incident level. There is already a wealth of data available about aggregate agency spending. Rebuild by Design’s Atlas of Disaster and the Bipartisan
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