America’s Private Disaster-Recovery Industry Faces Weather Stress Test
Uncertainty around FEMA – layered on top of a surge in extreme events – has led to something of a vacuum that entrepreneurs are eager to fill.
A home destroyed by the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in January 2025.
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The growing disaster-recovery economy is about to be tested in the US.