Federal Emergency Management Agency · Disaster Resilience
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
Pre-disaster mitigation grants for projects that reduce risk from natural hazards. Funds capability and capacity building, project scoping, and large infrastructure mitigation projects.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $600K – $50M
- Non-federal match
- 25% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- OPEN: combined FY2024–2025 NOFO (published 2026-03-25 via FEMA GO); applications due July 23, 2026. ~$1B available.
- Typical prep time
- 10–20 weeks
- Statutory authority
- Stafford Act §203 (DRRA)
Who is eligible for Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
BRIC was terminated in April 2025, then reopened under a December 2025 federal court injunction; the combined FY2024–2025 cycle is active with ~$1B available and a hard July 23, 2026 deadline. Status remains litigation-sensitive — confirm the current window with FEMA. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) (EPA)$1M – $500M
- Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) (FEMA)$100K – $25M
- Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) (FEMA)$100K – $30M
- CDBG Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) (HUD)$5M – $500M
- Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) (DOE)$5M – $250M
- PROTECT Discretionary Grants (DOT)$100K – $100M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.