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Catastrophic fires and similar disasters can have profound economic impacts even if they don’t directly impact commercial or industrial facilities. For example, the Horse Creek/Fort McMurray fire [...]

At the end of August, several counties in New York State received a disaster designation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) due to the extreme drought conditions they faced this [...]

In late 2015, South Carolina experienced unprecedented flooding, and was declared a major disaster area. Under the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF), the U.S. Economic Development [...]