FEMA Announces $1 Billion in Federal Funding to Help States Mitigate Impact of Disasters
This funding opportunity is designed to support critical infrastructure projects that save lives.
On March 25, 2026, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will publish a funding opportunity for the Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program. Through this funding opportunity, FEMA is making $1 billion in federal funding available to states, local governments, territories and Tribal Nations, empowering them to take decisive, proactive steps to protect their communities from potential disasters like fires, floods, earthquakes and hurricanes. This investment will generate jobs, protect private property, strengthen infrastructure, reduce the cost of future disasters and—most importantly—save lives.
“When done correctly, mitigation activities save lives and reduce the cost of future disasters,” said Senior Official Performing the Duties of the FEMA Administrator Karen S. Evans. “That’s why President Trump signed the BRIC program into law during his first administration. Under his leadership once again, the program is now even better. For this new funding opportunity, FEMA has reduced bureaucratic hurdles, focused funding on major infrastructure project, and shifted responsibilities to the states, reducing federal overreach. We are confident that this new and improved BRIC program will deliver results and make America safer.”
Under the leadership of President Trump, FEMA has a renewed focus on infrastructure-related hazard mitigation projects and empowering state and local leaders. This new BRIC funding opportunity is specifically designed to:
- Prioritize infrastructure resilience by funding construction projects that are ready to implement and incentivizing the adoption of the latest hazard-resistant building codes. This is a proven strategy to protect communities and reduce future disaster losses.
- Move money faster by eliminating phased projects, simplifying the National Competition scoring system, and removing subapplication scoring by the National Review Panel. This will enable community leaders to take swift, decisive action to bolster their resilience to disasters.
- Shift responsibility and authority to states, territories and Tribal Nations by removing funding for hazard mitigation planning and non-financial direct technical assistance provisions. The program now maximizes state and local responsibility for resilience and risk reduction rather than federal investing in a wide range of activities.
Eligible applicants include states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and federally recognized Tribal Nations. Eligible subapplicants include local governments, communities, special districts and Tribal Nations applying through a state or territory.
For the Fiscal Years 2024-25 funding cycle, these are the available categories.
- $112 million for states and territories (up to $2 million federal cost share for each applicant)
- $50 million Tribal Set-Aside (up to $2 million federal cost share for each applicant) and
- $56 million for State or Territory Building Code Plus-Up (up to $1 million federal cost share per applicant) and $25 million for Tribal Nation Building Code Plus-Up to carry out eligible building code adoption and enforcement activities
- $757 million for National Competition (up to $20 million federal cost share per subapplication)
No single applicant may receive more than 15% of the total available funding across all BRIC categories and includes the combined total of all funding category requests.
The application period will open on March 25, 2026, and run for 120 days. The deadline to submit applications is July 23, 2026.
Interested applicants and subapplicants may review the Notice of Funding Opportunity on Grants.gov. For more information on the BRIC program, applicants should contact their FEMA Regional Office or visit www.FEMA.gov.
For more information: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities
Please send all questions to mitigationgrants@mema.ms.gov.