NDResponse is the state’s one-stop-shop for communicating timely and accurate information to citizens during emergencies and disasters. As the state coordinating agency during disasters and emergencies, NDDES is a significant contributing agency to NDResponse.
The 2025 Hazard Mitigation Report highlights North Dakota's most recent hazard mitigation actions, building on our longstanding history of investment in risk reduction efforts across the state.
Disasters have a way of exploiting community and individual vulnerabilities. See the tools we've gathered to help identify those layers of vulnerability that exist in your community, so that you can strengthen the whole community through your planning efforts.
Recent News
View All News
The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) proposes to provide federal financial assistance under the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program to the City of Lincoln (sub-applicant) in Burleigh County, North Dakota, for a flood mitigation project.
Governor Kelly Armstrong has proclaimed August as Emergency Management Awareness Month in recognition of the often-unnoticed work emergency managers do every day to keep North Dakotans safe.
Civil Air Patrol North Dakota Wing and North Dakota National Guard are supporting the mission to find Artoun Gostantian in the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The ND Department of Emergency Services (NDDES) has been notified that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is announcing $1 billion in funding available through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC).
North Dakota is supporting the Nebraska wildfire fight by sending two North Dakota National Guard 600-gallon “Bambi Buckets” for aerial firefighting via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC).
