--- title: "Floods, fires and storms disrupt homes and roads across the United States" url: "https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/2026-08" description: "Every emergency alert sent across the United States in August 2026, and what happened behind them. Figures for the month, with the data behind them." source: "BePrepared Solutions" --- [BePrepared](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/)[Alert Pulse](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse) [](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/2026-07 "July 2026")[](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/2026-09 "September 2026")[Try freeFree 7\-day trial](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/trial?source=alert-pulse&utm_source=alert-pulse&utm_medium=report&utm_campaign=2026-08&utm_content=masthead&returnTo=%2Freports%2Falert-pulse%2F2026-08) Alert Pulse · Monthly report · August 2026 # Floods, fires and storms disrupt homes and roads across the United States August flooding forced Ohio evacuations and damaged Utah homes. Oregon fires closed roads and brought shelters into service, while Maryland storms displaced residents and cut power. August 2026 · 37,931 warningsJuly 2026 · 42,499 warnings−11% per day vs July 2026 - Flash flooding · Aug 11–17 the Ohio Valley 8 flash flood emergencies were declared - Tornadoes and severe storms · Aug 11 the Ohio Valley 3 tornadoes were seen on the ground Named in the warnings: Aurora, Covington, Florence - Wildfire · Aug 5–7 Oregon 8 orders to leave came from county agencies - Tornadoes and severe storms · Aug 10–11 the Mid-Atlantic A county agency told people to leave Named in the warnings: Berkeley Springs, Great Cacapon, Little Orleans - Flash flooding · Aug 30–31 Utah, Arizona and Colorado 3 orders to leave came from county agencies Warnings described the hazards and evacuation orders told people to leave, but neither could keep water out of homes or roads open. [Read the month](#flood-2026-08-20-oh) ## Floodwater fills Pataskala homes and forces overnight evacuations 1. AUG 19, 7 PM UTC First warning Carroll County, Indiana 2. AUG 19, 11 PM UTC Considerable threat Logan County, Ohio 3. AUG 24, 7 PM UTC Last warning Jackson County, Indiana - Flash flooding — coloured as water. 129 counties in the Ohio Valley, Aug 19–20. In Pataskala during the overnight flooding, Robert Thomas said his trailer and neighboring trailers were under four feet of water within 20 minutes. A tree limb had crashed through his roof. “This is the scariest thing I've ever been through,” the resident told The Columbus Dispatch. The warnings had begun in Carroll County, Indiana, on the afternoon of August 19. By evening, the weather service had issued a flash flood warning carrying a considerable damage threat for Logan County, Ohio. Licking County lay within the broader flooding area marked 1 on the map. In Pataskala, police and firefighters began evacuations around 1:15 a.m. on August 20, The Newark Advocate reported. Crews also evacuated riverside residents in Buckeye Lake and Newark. Elsewhere in Licking County that day, emergency crews conducted water rescues after people drove into flooded areas, according to the same newspaper. By daylight, leaving home was not an option for some residents of Pataskala's Bright Waters subdivision: high water blocked their way out, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The newspaper also documented a washed-away portion of Beaver Run Road that day. The Newark Advocate reported that shelters opened in Heath and Hebron, with additional shelter assistance in Newark and Buckeye Lake. As of 11:30 a.m. on August 20, Licking County interim Emergency Management Director John Wieber told The Newark Advocate he was not aware of any flood injuries. More broadly, reporting reviewed for this flooding found no death or injury reported. That finding does not diminish the disruption documented in damaged homes, rescues and impassable roads. [Flood alerts by the numbers](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/flood-preparedness#flood-statistics): every published month, by state and county. ## Oregon fires close Highway 26 and bring shelters into service 1. AUG 5, 3 AM UTC County order Josephine County, Oregon 2. AUG 5, 3 AM UTC County order Josephine County, Oregon 3. AUG 6, 8 PM UTC County order Jackson County, Oregon - Wildfire — coloured as heat and fire. 5 counties in Oregon, Aug 5–7. Near Prineville on August 5, U.S. Highway 26 remained closed while crews dealt with falling rocks and fire-weakened trees, the Oregon State Fire Marshal reported. Firefighters were also preparing a forest road for a burnout intended to create a protective buffer between the Rowe Creek Complex and the city's eastern edge. The Oregon fires marked 2 on the map were separate incidents, with county agencies issuing the emergency messages. In Josephine County on the evening of August 4, the sheriff sent an immediate evacuation order and then a separate notice telling residents to be set to evacuate. Those messages should not be read as a single fire advancing across Oregon. By August 7, a Red Cross shelter for the Rowe Creek Complex was operating at East Side Church in Prineville, according to Central Oregon Fire Information. Its update reported 357,895 acres burned across the complex, not a total confined to Crook County. Separately, near Ruch on August 6, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office issued readiness notices for the Woodrat Mountain Fire, including: “Jackson County Sheriff's Office: Level 2 BE SET / Nivel 2 ESTÉ LISTO - Woodrat Mtn Fire”. Medford Alert News reported that Jacksonville Elementary School opened as a shelter for people and small domestic pets. Livestock shelter was provided at the Jackson County Expo Fairgrounds in Central Point. By the morning of August 7, firefighters had built fire line around the entire Woodrat Mountain Fire, which more accurate mapping placed at 282 acres, Medford Alert News reported. Officials cautioned that extensive work remained before the fire could be considered secure; the sheriff also issued an immediate evacuation order that day. Across the Oregon incidents covered here, the reporting and official updates reviewed found no death or injury reported. [Wildfire alerts by the numbers](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/wildfire-preparedness#wildfire-statistics): every published month, by state and county. ## Floods damage Springdale homes and close Zion's trails 1. AUG 30, 5 PM UTC County order Emery County, Utah 2. AUG 30, 6 PM UTC County order Emery County, Utah 3. AUG 30, 6 PM UTC County order Emery County, Utah 4. AUG 30, 6 PM UTC First warning Coconino County, Arizona 5. AUG 30, 6 PM UTC Considerable threat Coconino County, Arizona 6. SEP 1, 12 AM UTC Last warning Garfield County, Utah - Flash flooding — coloured as water. 18 counties in Utah, Arizona and Colorado, Aug 30–31. In Springdale on August 31, floodwater left its mark inside Angelea Glazier's children's bedroom. “There's a four-foot water line in my boys' room that just totally destroyed all of their stuff,” she told KSL. The station reported that water broke a window before entering the room. The regional warnings had begun the previous day. On August 30, the Emery County Sheriff's Office sent this message: “POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING IN THE GOBLIN VALLEY AND SAN RAFAEL AREA”. A flash flood warning carrying a considerable damage threat followed in Coconino County, Arizona, before noon local time. These were parts of the Southwest flooding marked 3 on the map. Back in Springdale on August 31, about 30 people came to Glazier's home to help sort through flood-damaged belongings, she told KSL. The station documented damaged homes and mud and debris across roads. The household cleanup was the immediate work left after the water entered. Across nearby Zion National Park that afternoon, flooding brought further restrictions. The weather service in Salt Lake City wrote: “At 358 PM MDT, National Park Service reported flash flooding from earlier thunderstorms producing heavy rain across Zion National Park.” FOX 13 News Utah reported road and trail closures, including all park slot canyons and the Narrows. Transportation officials told the station that fallen rocks closed Zion–Mount Carmel Highway between the east entrance and Canyon Junction. In Bouse, Arizona, on August 31, trained spotters reported a swift-water rescue along Bouse Wash and Joshua Drive, according to the National Weather Service in Phoenix. The report did not specify how many people were rescued. A separate weather service report said Plamosa Road was impassable approaching Bouse. Across this regional flooding, the official reports and news coverage reviewed found no death or injury reported. [Flood alerts by the numbers](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/flood-preparedness#flood-statistics): every published month, by state and county. ## A tree strikes a Bethesda home as a tornado damages Dundalk 1. AUG 9, 3 AM UTC County order Fauquier County, Virginia 2. AUG 10, 12 PM UTC First warning Adams County, Pennsylvania 3. AUG 11, 12 PM UTC Last warning Wayne County, Indiana - Tornadoes and severe storms — coloured as storms. 389 counties in the Mid-Atlantic, Aug 10–11. In Bethesda on August 10, a falling tree struck John Edwards's home during the Maryland storms, part of the broader storm area marked 4 on the map. “All of a sudden there was a big bang and the whole house shook,” the homeowner told WJLA 7News. Earlier that day, at 8:08 a.m. local time, the weather service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Adams County, Pennsylvania. The Baltimore/Washington office's warnings described potential damage rather than confirmed losses: “Expect considerable damage to trees and power lines. Your life is at significant risk if outdoors. In addition to some trees falling into homes, wind damage is possible to roofs, sheds, open garages, and mobile homes.” Archived alert · August 2026Sent August 10, 2026 · NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC > Damaging winds will cause some trees and large branches to fall. This could injure those outdoors, as well as damage homes and vehicles. Roadways may become blocked by downed trees. Localized power outages are possible. Unsecured light… At the West Cedar Lane home in Bethesda that afternoon, the damage was no longer a forecast. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue crews found a fallen tree and an electrical fire originating at an outlet, WJLA reported. The station said two residents were displaced and, as far as the record shows, no one was hurt. In Baltimore and Dundalk, a weather service team surveyed the storm damage on August 11. Its subsequent report confirmed that the previous day's tornado uprooted and snapped trees near Broening Highway and snapped a power pole on Ralls Avenue. It also documented a displaced vehicle near Sollers Point Road and an awning torn from an apartment in Dundalk. Those findings establish tornado damage there, not at the Bethesda home. During the August 10 storms, more than 25,500 Baltimore Gas & Electric customers lost power at one point, CBS Baltimore reported. Across the broader storm event covered here, the official reports and news coverage reviewed found no death or injury reported. The documented costs nevertheless included a household displaced, damaged property and interrupted electricity. [Tornado alerts by the numbers](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/tornado-preparedness#tornado-statistics): every published month, by state and county. ## How BePrepared monitors this, all year This report exists because we already monitor the whole country. Every couple of minutes, around the clock, we read the emergency alerts going out across all fifty states and territories, and we keep them. A month of that record is what you have just read. The national picture is the part most people never see. What matters to you is much smaller: which of these warnings would have reached your street, and what the risks around you look like on an ordinary day. That is what BePrepared is for. Put in your ZIP code and you get the picture for where you live — the flood, fire and storm history around you, the dams and facilities nearby, and a plan for your household rather than a general one. With a free account you can keep a watchlist of the places you care about, like your home, your parents' address, and your kids' school, and set what you want to hear about. ## Where it hit hardest Counted as distinct warnings, and as the days a county spent under one. A county is the smallest area these warnings describe. ### Warnings by region - Ohio Valley1,028 - Southwest935 - Southeast871 - Midwest860 - Mid-Atlantic735 ### Most days under a warning - San Bernardino County, CA29 days San Bernardino County, CA was under a warning on: Aug 1, Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 17, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 26, Aug 27, Aug 28, Aug 29, Aug 30 - Pinal County, AZ28 days Pinal County, AZ was under a warning on: Aug 1, Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 13, Aug 14, Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 17, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 28, Aug 29, Aug 30, Aug 31 - Randall County, TX28 days Randall County, TX was under a warning on: Aug 1, Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 14, Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 26, Aug 29, Aug 30, Aug 31 - Riverside County, CA28 days Riverside County, CA was under a warning on: Aug 1, Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 13, Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 17, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 26, Aug 27, Aug 28, Aug 29, Aug 30 - La Paz County, AZ27 days La Paz County, AZ was under a warning on: Aug 1, Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 17, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 30, Aug 31, Sep 1 - Coconino County, AZ27 days Coconino County, AZ was under a warning on: Aug 1, Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 14, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 26, Aug 27, Aug 28, Aug 29, Aug 30, Aug 31 - Gila County, AZ27 days Gila County, AZ was under a warning on: Aug 1, Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 17, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 23, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 26, Aug 27, Aug 30 - Clark County, NV27 days Clark County, NV was under a warning on: Aug 2, Aug 3, Aug 4, Aug 5, Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8, Aug 9, Aug 10, Aug 12, Aug 13, Aug 14, Aug 15, Aug 16, Aug 17, Aug 18, Aug 19, Aug 20, Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 24, Aug 25, Aug 26, Aug 27, Aug 28, Aug 29, Aug 31 Figure 03[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### Where the warnings landed Every county that received a warning this month, coloured and scaled by how many; the faint dots received none.3,119 of the country's counties received at least one warning; the faint dots are the counties that received none, and a quiet county is not a safe county. Each county wears its MOST frequent kind of warning and its dot scales with how many it received; the month's three biggest kinds carry color and every other kind wears gray, with the panels below giving each kind its own map. The full per-county mix is in the CSV. 633 warned areas — marine zones and territories — have no county position on this map, about 11% of county-level warning volume. They are still counted in every figure and table. Too few counties to panel: winter (13), geologic (1). - Severe storms - Extreme heat - Flooding - Everything else Severe storms34,018 warnings · 2,528 counties Extreme heat25,791 warnings · 1,963 counties Flooding21,160 warnings · 1,792 counties Fire3,382 warnings · 398 counties Tornadoes1,173 warnings · 309 counties Safety & civil700 warnings · 318 counties Hurricane & tropical185 warnings · 38 counties View as a table | County | State | Warnings | Most frequent kind | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Pima | AZ | 510 | Flooding | | Maricopa | AZ | 326 | Everything else | | Pueblo | CO | 271 | Everything else | | Cochise | AZ | 268 | Severe storms | | Pinal | AZ | 263 | Everything else | | Cherry | NE | 246 | Severe storms | | Arapahoe | CO | 226 | Everything else | | Fremont | CO | 221 | Everything else | | El Paso | CO | 208 | Everything else | | San Bernardino | CA | 203 | Flooding | | La Paz | AZ | 193 | Severe storms | | Elbert | CO | 192 | Everything else | | Duval | FL | 192 | Everything else | | Custer | CO | 188 | Everything else | | Douglas | CO | 185 | Everything else | | Washington | OH | 181 | Flooding | | Laramie | WY | 178 | Everything else | | Huerfano | CO | 175 | Everything else | | Weld | CO | 170 | Everything else | | Adams | CO | 168 | Everything else | ## What it cost No documented outcome figures were available for this period at the time of publication. This report therefore describes the warnings that went out, and makes no claim about deaths, damage or acreage. BePrepared ## 37,931 warnings across the country in August 2026. See which reach your street. We read the emergency alerts going out across all fifty states, around the clock. That is where this report comes from. Enter your ZIP and get the version that matters to you: the flood, fire and storm history around your address, what sits nearby, and a plan built for your household. [Start your free 7-day trial](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/trial?source=alert-pulse&utm_source=alert-pulse&utm_medium=report&utm_campaign=2026-08&utm_content=card&returnTo=%2Freports%2Falert-pulse%2F2026-08) No card. It ends on its own. [Or just look up your ZIP](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/zip) The numbers behind this report Every warning counted once, by type, place, day and hour, with the method below and the whole table downloadable at the end of the page. Distinct warnings 37,931 carried by 47,345 messages (1.25× echo) Counties reached 3,752 across 54 states and territories Overnight 7,422 10pm–6am local · 154 of the most severe Effective on arrival 99% take effect the moment they are sent ### What was warned about | Alert type | Warnings | Messages | | --- | --- | --- | | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 11,205 | 11,205 | | Special Weather Statement | 9,778 | 9,783 | | Flood Advisory | 2,672 | 2,673 | | Flash Flood Warning | 2,659 | 2,659 | | Special Marine Warning | 1,606 | 1,606 | | Heat Advisory | 1,570 | 3,130 | | Small Craft Advisory | 1,346 | 5,022 | | Flood Warning | 1,221 | 1,900 | ### Where | State | Warnings | | --- | --- | | AZ | 1,956 | | CO | 1,744 | | FL | 1,698 | | IN | 1,628 | | OH | 1,558 | | NC | 1,514 | | GA | 1,497 | | NE | 1,314 | The busiest hour of the period was 5pm local time, with 3,610 warnings. ### Counties reached most often | County | State | Warnings | | --- | --- | --- | | Pima | AZ | 510 | | Maricopa | AZ | 326 | | Pueblo | CO | 271 | | Cochise | AZ | 268 | | Pinal | AZ | 263 | | Cherry | NE | 246 | | Arapahoe | CO | 226 | | Fremont | CO | 221 | | El Paso | CO | 208 | | San Bernardino | CA | 203 | A county with no alerts is not a county with no risk. It can mean a quiet period, or a hazard that this feed does not carry. Figure 04[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### When the warnings arrived Distinct warnings by the local hour they were sent, across the whole period.Local time in the place each alert was sent to. 7,422 arrived between 10pm and 6am, 154 of them at the highest severity. View as a table | Local hour | Warnings | Of which most severe | | --- | --- | --- | | 12am | 1,011 | 19 | | 1am | 870 | 18 | | 2am | 870 | 9 | | 3am | 670 | 6 | | 4am | 611 | 7 | | 5am | 650 | 7 | | 6am | 592 | 13 | | 7am | 553 | 14 | | 8am | 640 | 26 | | 9am | 668 | 25 | | 10am | 744 | 37 | | 11am | 908 | 23 | | 12pm | 1,146 | 31 | | 1pm | 1,690 | 47 | | 2pm | 2,510 | 53 | | 3pm | 3,106 | 92 | | 4pm | 3,507 | 124 | | 5pm | 3,610 | 104 | | 6pm | 3,360 | 84 | | 7pm | 3,028 | 93 | | 8pm | 2,473 | 76 | | 9pm | 1,974 | 82 | | 10pm | 1,489 | 65 | | 11pm | 1,251 | 23 | Figure 05[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### The feed repeats itself How many messages the feed carried, how many distinct warnings they represent, and how many counties those reached.An echo rate of 1.25× — for every warning issued, 1.25 messages carried it. Reporting messages as warnings would overstate this month by 9,414. View as a table | Stage | Count | | --- | --- | | Messages received | 47,345 | | Of which updates | 20,465 | | Of which cancels | 0 | | Distinct warnings | 37,931 | | Counties reached | 3,752 | Figure 06[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### How severe they were Distinct warnings by the severity the issuing agency assigned. - Minor - Moderate - Severe - Extreme - Not classified View as a table | Severity | Warnings | | --- | --- | | Minor | 5,047 | | Moderate | 12,232 | | Severe | 19,132 | | Extreme | 1,078 | | Not classified | 442 | Figure 07[Embed this chart](#use-these-figures) ### What people were told to do The share of warnings carrying each instruction to the public.These are response counts. They record the instruction an alert carried, not the hazard behind it. - Follow instructions - Shelter - Avoid - Everything else Where those instructions came from - Shelter (11,832) — 2,690 corroborated as flood, 1,009 corroborated as tornado, 34 corroborated as wildfire, 10 corroborated as hurricane, 8,089 with no hazard stated in the alert text - Evacuate (107) — 8 corroborated as flood, 76 corroborated as wildfire, 23 with no hazard stated in the alert text View as a table | Response | Warnings | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Follow instructions | 12,215 | 32.2% | | Shelter | 11,832 | 31.2% | | Avoid | 10,163 | 26.8% | | Monitor | 2,251 | 5.9% | | Prepare | 1,045 | 2.8% | | Unstated | 303 | 0.8% | | Evacuate | 107 | 0.3% | | All clear | 15 | 0.0% | ### What this report cannot tell you - This report records the warnings that were sent: when, where, and what people were told to do. It cannot say whether anyone received them, whether they acted, or whether they had anywhere to go. - Deaths, injuries, damage and acreage come from the news organizations and agencies named beside each figure. Our own records measure warnings, never outcomes, and are never the source for a toll. - A county is the smallest area these alerts describe, so "a county was warned" does not mean every street in it was at risk. - Where no figure has been reported, this report says so rather than estimating. ## How these numbers were counted Counted AUG 1, 2026 – SEP 1, 2026 · Frozen at publish The alert figures in this report — how many warnings, where, when, and how severe — come from the alerts this archive received from FEMA IPAWS and the National Weather Service between August 1, 2026 and September 1, 2026, counted once and frozen when the report was published. Deaths, damage and acreage are **not** ours and are never drawn from this archive. Each is attributed to the organization that reported it, above. ### What was counted - cap\_status = 'Actual' (tests, exercises and demos excluded) - SAME test codes RWT/RMT/DMO/NPT/NAT excluded, and any event type containing "test" - An event is the first message of a CAP identifier chain; updates and cancels are counted separately - Alert time is cap\_sent, falling back to ingest time when the feed omits it - Counties come from the alert geocodes (SAME/FIPS); statewide codes are not counted as counties ### What these numbers cannot tell you - Lead time is the gap between when an alert was sent and when it takes effect. This archive collapses CAP onset into effective, so for many products those are the same instant by design — it is not a measure of forecast warning time. - 142 alerts expire exactly 24 hours after they were sent because the feed omitted an expiry and the ingest substitutes a default. They are excluded from the duration distribution rather than charted as real forecasts. - Evacuation and shelter figures are RESPONSE counts. They record what people were told to do, not what caused it; where the alert text does not name a hazard, the row is reported as unstated. - Hour-of-day figures use each alert’s own local time, resolved from its state. Alerts spanning several states resolve to the first state in their geocodes. - National Weather Service alerts began arriving in volume on 2026-06-12. Earlier months hold only the handful that reached this archive by other routes, so they undercount weather alerts badly and cannot be compared with later months. - Population figures are not available for these counties, so alert counts are reported per county and never per resident. ### This archive Collection began 2026-03-27. National Weather Service alerts began arriving in volume on 2026-06-12 (a small number reached the archive by other routes from 2026-03-31). Months from 2026-07-01 onward can be compared with each other; earlier ones cannot. ## Corrections and updates - v2September 19, 2026 improved prompts - v2September 19, 2026 improved prompts - v4September 22, 2026 new version of report builder For newsrooms and researchers ## Use these figures Figures v4 · Frozen Journalists, emergency managers and researchers are welcome to reuse anything in this report, including the underlying counts, with attribution. Version 4 of these figures is frozen: if a correction changes them, it appears above as a dated note rather than silently replacing what you cited. [Download the figures (CSV)](https://bepreparedsolutions.co/reports/alert-pulse/2026-08/data.csv?v=4)[Ask about the data](mailto:hello@bepreparedsolutions.co?subject=Alert%20Pulse%20data%20question) Cite this report BePreparedSolutions.co. "Floods, fires and storms disrupt homes and roads across the United States." 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