September 11, 2025
New Research Finds Increased Payoff from Disaster Resilience Investments
By Mary Bart
Every dollar invested in disaster resilience today could save communities up to $33 in lost future economic activity. This powerful finding comes from a new report from Allstate, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
July 31, 2025
Let’s Keep Our Most Precious Land Uses Out of the 1,000-Year Floodplain
By Kevin Coulton, PE, CFM
Using flood data from the July 2025 Texas disaster, this op-ed highlights the danger of placing summer camps in high-risk areas and calls for smarter, data-driven decisions.
July 15, 2025
The Cost of Inaction: What the Texas Floods Reveal About Our Risk
By News Editor
To help prevent tragedies like the one we saw in Texas, ASFPM offers six recommendations to strengthen our nation’s approach to flood risk management.
July 12, 2025
This Texas County Asked for Disaster Resilience Help. The Flood Came First.
By Zoya Teirstein, Grist
Actions at the federal level make it more likely that communities will be caught flat-footed as extreme weather events become more intense and unpredictable.
April 15, 2025
Now Is the Time for Radical Honesty in Flood Policy
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
A call for radically honest conversations on flood policy to ensure government decisions truly serve constituents and reduce future flood risk.
April 11, 2025
FEMA’s Former Resilience Exec Sounds the Alarm on Ending BRIC
By David Maurstad
David Maurstad, who spent 16 years at FEMA serving with appointees under four presidential administrations, explains why BRIC was a valuable mitigation program.
March 17, 2025
ASCE 24-24 Delivers Major Update to Flood Resistant Design Standards
By News Editor
This may be the most significant upgrade in the nation’s flood loss reduction standards since the creation of the NFIP minimums in 1973.
February 13, 2025
Rising to the Challenge: Ensuring Flood Resilience in an Era of Change
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
In this column, I want to focus on how we, individually and collectively, can rise to the challenge and ensure that flood resilience remains a cornerstone of public safety and prosperity.
May 16, 2025
ASFPM Submits Recommendations to Strengthen FEMA
By News Editor
ASFPM strongly urged the Review Council to keep FEMA but fix what’s broken.
READ MORE