You can find social media graphics with important safety messaging in various languages, including English, Chinese, Spanish and Vietnamese. If we cannot verify you lived in or owned the home that you listed on your application, we will ask you to provide documents to prove occupancy and/or ownership to help us determine if you are approved for assistance. Learn more about this process.Īs part of our effort to make the disaster assistance process quicker and reduce the burden on applicants, we try to verify occupancy and ownership by using an automated public records search. FEMA is also required to verify you owned your home before providing home repair or home replacement assistance. Verifying Home Ownership or OccupancyįEMA is required to verify you lived at the address in your application as your primary residence before providing most types of assistance. HUD-participating HCAs are approved and trained to provide tools to current and prospective homeowners and renters so they can make responsible choices to address their housing needs in light of their financial situations. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides support to a nationwide network of housing counseling agencies (HCAs) and certified counselors. But if you begin cleaning up before the inspection, FEMA suggests you take pictures, make a list of your losses, and keep receipts for all of your disaster-caused expenses. The inspector should not need to view repair receipts or pictures of the damage. If you miss the call, they will leave a voicemail message and make multiple attempts to reach you. If necessary based on the losses you reported, an inspector will contact you by phone to schedule an inspection.
You will receive notification letters from FEMA either by mail or electronic correspondence explaining your next steps. Or FEMA will ask you to send documents to verify your expenses. The agency will schedule a time to inspect your home if you reported damage to your home or personal property. What's Next?įEMA will verify your disaster-caused losses. SBA information is also available at or by email at more about SBA loans I Applied for Assistance. However, if you are approved for an SBA loan, and you do not accept it, you will not be referred back to FEMA for personal property or transportation assistance.įor more information about the SBA disaster loan program, please call the SBA at 80 (TTY: 80). You do not have to accept an SBA loan offer. You must complete and return a loan application to be considered for an SBA loan or certain types of FEMA assistance. If you are referred to the SBA, FEMA will contact you via an auto-dialer system to explain how to apply for a disaster loan. FEMA uses your household annual gross income and number of dependents to determine if you should be referred to the SBA. FEMA works with the SBA to determine if you may qualify for Personal Property Assistance, Transportation Assistance, or a Group Flood Insurance Policy.įEMA will automatically refer you to the SBA to be considered for a disaster loan if you meet SBA’s income standards. The SBA provides low-interest disaster loans to individuals and households to help with disaster losses. Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster loans. Small Business AdministrationįEMA is not allowed to provide disaster assistance for certain losses covered by the U.S. To check the status on a previously submitted claim, visit. You are no longer able to begin a new claim. Please visit for more information about ArcGIS Pro.The last day for individuals and families to apply for assistance after this disaster has passed.
This animated map was made using Esri's ArcGIS Pro, Cinema 4D, Redshift, and Adobe After Effects. This animated map displays a century of California wildfires in under two minutes. Collectively, they consumed nearly 1.6 million acres, enough space to hold five cities the size of Los Angeles. In 2018, California experienced the Mendocino Complex Fire and the Camp Fire-respectively the largest and most destructive wildfires in the state’s history-but there were over 50 others that year. What has changed in recent years is their frequency and ferocity, largely driven by climate change. Living in the state has always meant forging an uneasy alliance with the natural cycle of fires. Wildfires are a fact of life in California-and not a new one.