Community resilience and preparedness are increasingly important to the national bottom line. Last year the U.S. experienced a record-breaking 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters whose damages totaled $95 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Biden administration’s announcement of new measures to put resilience at the forefront comes during a week when Lake Charles, Louisiana, is still cleaning up from storm-related flooding prior to what NOAA anticipates will be “another above-normal” hurricane season. Meanwhile, California communities continue to face a dangerous wildfire season amid drought and recently passed a $536 million wildfires package that’s in part focused on resilience.
