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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Under the direction of United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, FEMA has obligated over $3 million in emergency housing funds to support Alaskans displaced by severe storms, flooding and remnants of Typhoon Halong October 8-13, 2025.

The assistance, provided under FEMA’s Public Assistance program, includes $2,971,062 for non-congregate sheltering. Non-congregate sheltering allows displaced survivors to stay in hotel rooms. This form of sheltering offers privacy for survivors as they work toward their long-term recovery. The assistance also includes $410,565 for congregate – or group – sheltering.

Local and Tribal governments, as well as certain private non-profits that sustained damage to infrastructure because of the Alaska West Coast storms may still receive financial assistance from FEMA. The deadline to submit a request for Public Assistance is December 21, 2025.

Public Assistance helps tribal, territorial, and local governments cover costs for debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures, and restoring public infrastructure. To learn more, visit FEMA’s website at www.fema.gov/public-assistance-local-state-tribal-and-non-profit.

It should be noted that Public Assistance is not available for individuals, but that Individual Assistance is for individuals and families for their personal damages. You may register for FEMA Individual Assistance by calling the dedicated Alaska Call Center at 1-866-342-1699, going online, or by using the FEMA app. The deadline to apply for Individual Assistance is December 22, 2025.

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WASHINGTON — FEMA announced today that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Washington to supplement response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides and mudslides beginning on December 9, 2025, and continuing.

The President’s action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts to alleviate the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population and to provide appropriate assistance to save lives, to protect property, public health and safety and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in Benton, Chelan, Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kittitas, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Wahkiakum, Whatcom and Yakima counties, the Samish Indian Nation and all other Tribal Nations within the specified jurisdictions.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize and provide, at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, under the public assistance program, will be provided at 75% federal funding. 

John Harrison has been named the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal response operations in the affected area. Designations may be made at a later date if requested by the state and warranted by the results of further damage assessments. 

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Bethel Assistance Hub will be open weekdays Dec. 11-19 to assist Alaskans who suffered losses in areas affected by the severe storms, flooding and remnants of Typhoon Halong Oct. 8-13, 2025. The deadline to apply for help from FEMA is Dec. 22.

FEMA staff there will help survivors apply for disaster assistance, answer questions and upload needed documents. The center is open 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Location
AVCP Tugkar Building
570 3rd Ave., Bethel, AK 99559

Other ways to apply: 

Call the Alaska Call Center at 1-866-342-1699 from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Yup’ik interpreters are available 1-5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.Register on DisasterAssistance.gov.Get the FEMA App and submit your application directly through the app.

Survivors are encouraged to register for both state and FEMA Individual Assistance programs to maximize their recovery benefits. To apply for state Individual Assistance, visit www.ready.alaska.gov/ia or call 
1-844-445-7131. The deadline for that program is Jan. 8. 

The U.S. Small Business Administration offers low interest disaster loans to homeowners, renters, businesses and nonprofits. SBA representatives are on hand 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays at the Disaster Loan Outreach Center at Bethel City Hall, 300 Chief Eddie Hoffman Hwy. For more information, apply online at sba.gov/disaster or call 1-800-659-2955. The deadline to apply for physical damage is Dec. 22.

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DENTON, Texas – New flood maps have been finalized and will become effective on June 10, 2026, for Freestone County, Texas. During the next six months, a FEMA compliance specialist will work with the community to update each floodplain ordinance and adopt these new flood maps.

Residents are encouraged to examine the maps to determine if they are in a low-to-moderate or high-risk flood zone. The current and future Flood Insurance Rate Map can be viewed on FEMA’s Flood Map Changes Viewer at https://msc.fema.gov/fmcv.

By understanding flood risks, individuals can decide which insurance option is best for their situation. Community leaders can use these maps to make informed decisions about building standards and development that will make the community more resilient and lessen the impacts of a flooding event.

Anyone without flood insurance risks uninsured losses to their home, personal property and business. Flood insurance is available either through a private policy or through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for those in communities who participate in the NFIP. Residents with federally backed mortgages must have flood insurance if their structures are in the Special Flood Hazard Area.

Contact your local floodplain administrator (FPA) to review the new flood maps and learn more about your risk of flooding. A FEMA Map Specialist can help identify your community FPA and answer questions about the maps as well.

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