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FEMA, the state, local officials and nonprofit organizations continue to work with hundreds of households displaced from their homes after Hurricane Michael. FEMA is currently providing temporary housing units for about 500 families. FEMA and its partners have helped more than 400 families achieve a more permanent housing solution.

The Direct Housing program ends April 11, 2020. Thereafter, FEMA will collect monthly rent and possible fees if occupants continue to live in their FEMA-provided temporary housing unit(s).

Release date: 

May 2, 2020

AGENCY: FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

ACTION: NOTICE REPORTING ON FEMA’S PROCUREMENT OF REINSURANCE FOR THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM PURSUANT TO THE REVISED AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (April 6, 2014) .

Date of Notice: 

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) will be procuring reinsurance for the National Flood Insurance Program (“NFIP”) to be effective on or about January 1, 2019. To participate in the reinsurance procurement, vendors must submit a request to participate by November 19, 2018, and final tenders by November 29, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT: FEMA’s Reinsurance Broker, Guy Carpenter and Company, at FEMA.GC@guycarp.com or a FEMA representative at FEMA-NFIP-REINSURANCE@fema.dhs.gov.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.  – Survivors who registered with FEMA for federal assistance due to one of California’s two 2020 wildfire disaster declarations receive letters containing the agency’s response to their application and the reason for that determination.

Using big data, FEMA’s modeling of the 18.1 million buildings constructed in the United States since 2000 has found the nation has saved $1.6 billion every year. These savings represent the cumulative losses avoided when structures follow International Codes or similar building codes that mitigate flood, hurricane and earthquake damage. FEMA projects that by 2040, the nation will save around $3.2 billion per year. This adds up to almost $133 billion in total losses avoided from 2000 to 2040.