Thirty-nine states received the agency’s lowest score, including many of the most disaster-prone
A new federal analysis gives all but a handful of states the lowest possible rating on the quality of their building codes, showing a widespread failure to protect people against windstorms and flooding through up-to-date building standards.
Ten states received a top rating including California, Florida, New Jersey and New York, each with a score of 99. FEMA and groups such as the insurance industry and climate advocates have been urging states and localities to adopt the newest building codes for better protection against climate impacts. A FEMA study in 2020 found that thousands of localities had archaic building codes that exposed people to “a dangerous, costly and unnecessarily high level of risk.”
FEMA called its rating “a tool” that officials can use “to encourage adopting the latest” building codes.
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