News release from U.S. Small Business Association: Relief Still Available to Hawaiʻi Businesses Hit by April 2024 Flood The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in Hawai'i of the Feb. 21, 2025 deadline to apply for low interest federal disaster loans to offset economic losses caused by... Continue Reading →
Congress must periodically renew the NFIP’s statutory authority to operate. On Dec. 21, 2024, the president signed legislation passed by Congress that extends the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP’s) authorization to March 14, 2025. Congress must now reauthorize the NFIP by no later than 11:59 p.m. on March 14, 2025. FEMA and Congress have never failed... Continue Reading →
The Building Science Disaster Support (BSDS) team has released four recovery advisories following the unprecedented wildfires in Maui, Hawaiʻi. The BSDS Program sent experts to assess the performance of buildings and structures after the disaster, and the advisories are based on their observations of the impact of wildfires. Wildfire Recovery Resources for Maui (Maui Wildfires... Continue Reading →
Get a flood insurance quote online with the NFIP's Direct2Consumer Quoting Tool! Share this resource with your community to help them better understand their flood risk and easily secure coverage. Direct2Consumer Quoting Tool Source: https://www.floodsmart.gov/policy-quote/
Sherilyn “Berry” Ueoka was born and raised in Wailuku, Maui. She is a licensed civil engineer with the Department of Public Works, Engineering Division since 2023. Berry has over 20 years of civil and coastal engineering experience in the private sector with specialized expertise in performing and integrating numerical models of coastal, estuarine, fluvial, and... Continue Reading →
Key Fundamentals of Flood Insurance for Agents 2.0 is a two-part course on FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program. This course brings participants the latest information on the NFIP, including instruction on the NFIP’s pricing methodology – Risk Rating 2.0: Equity in Action. Key Fundamentals of Flood Insurance for Agents 2.0 also reviews the key elements that insurance agents need to know about the NFIP and how it works.
Hawai'i News Now By Edward ZhangPublished: Oct. 17, 2024
O‘AHU – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), and the City and County of Honolulu (City) invite Oʻahu residents, especially home and business owners, to attend an important informational open house on significant updates to FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for Oʻahu. Since 2019, FEMA has undertaken an... Continue Reading →
Flood risks change over time. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) works with communities across the country to identify flood hazards and promote ways to reduce the impacts and risks. Since 2019, FEMA has been conducting the Oʻahu Flood Hazard Restudy by performing detailed hydrologic and hydraulic studies using the latest high-quality data to analyze... Continue Reading →
