Wildfire
Integrated Resource Solutions
This web site from consulting firm Integrated Resource Solutions provides information about its projects related to public and homeowner views and attitudes about wildfire, risk perceptions, and creating defensible space around homes as well as associated reports and publications.
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research has released its federal plan for fiscal year 2006,articulating the provision of meteorological services and the support for meteorological and related research by agencies of the federal government.
National Weather Service
The preliminary damage assessment from the National Weather Service for the F3 tornado that struck the Evansville, Indiana, area on November 6 is available here.
Congressional Research Service
This Congressional Research Service report, Disaster Response and Appointment of a Recovery Czar: The Executive Branch’s Response to the Flood of 1927, describes the flood of 1927 and assesses the federal government’s response.
Center on Federal Financial Institutions
Two short publications on flood insurance, Federal Flood Insurance after Katrina and National Flood Insurance Program Summary, developed by the Center on Federal Financial Institutions are available here.
Flood Risk Management: Federal Role in Infrastructure
Flood Risk Management: Federal Role in Infrastructure by the Congressional Research Service discusses federal investment decisions on flood control infrastructure, such as levees, floodwalls, and dams and analyzes flood risk as a composite of flood threat, consequence, and vulnerability.
