Relief & Recovery

While disasters often strike quickly and furiously, disaster recovery is usually a gradual and methodical process. Safety is primary at the outset, but mental and physical well-being are equally important over the time period that a specific event may require to mobilize the necessary assistance and implement a full recovery.

Understanding how the process works is one of the ways to mitigate anxiety and make sure your family gets full benefit from available resources. FEMA's Recovering from a Disaster page has a useful overview of the disaster recovery process that every resident should make themselves familiar with.