Natural Disasters Scorecard True 0% 3 Checks Mostly True 0% 9 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 13 Checks False 0% 64 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 15 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Natural Disasters Jared Moskowitz stated on January 22, 2026 in an X post: The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s “backlog of unanswered disaster assistance applications has exploded to the largest in its history.” January 28, 2026 X posts stated on October 26, 2025 in a post on X: Video shows Hurricane Melissa hitting Jamaica on Oct. 26, 2025. October 27, 2025 TikTok posts stated on July 16, 2025 in a Threads post: Elk, grizzly bears, bison and mountain lions are fleeing Yellowstone National Park to Salt Lake City, Utah. August 7, 2025 X posts stated on July 29, 2025 in a post: Oprah Winfrey refused to open her private Maui road during July 29, 2025, tsunami warnings. July 30, 2025 X posts stated on July 12, 2025 in an X post: The Kerr County, Texas, sheriff “said he would apply for a green card for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family.” July 14, 2025 Social Media stated on July 5, 2025 in posts on social media: The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas. July 7, 2025 Brian Tyler Cohen stated on April 12, 2025 in an X post: Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.” By Paul Specht • April 24, 2025 Adam Schiff stated on January 26, 2025 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press: “As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.” By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2025 TikTok posts stated on January 24, 2025 in a video on TikTok: “JD Vance is in North Carolina, and he’s found furnished apartments to put the people in that have been living in tents.” January 30, 2025 Donald Trump stated on January 24, 2025 in remarks in North Carolina: "The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January. By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025 Load More Latest Articles It’s a wrap! Here are PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of 2025 • December 29, 2025 Fact-checking political talking points about the 2025 government shutdown • October 1, 2025 On Facebook, posts about celebrity donations for Texas relief efforts went viral. They were baseless • July 10, 2025 Reports of 2 girls rescued from a tree fueled false hope after Texas storms. Here’s how it spread. • July 7, 2025 Some viral videos of Texas flooding might be fake. Here’s how to spot them. • July 7, 2025 Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center isn’t funded by FEMA hurricane money • June 26, 2025 Killing chickens, banning TikTok: Six times Trump criticized Democrats for things he also supported By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2025 Verificamos lo que Donald Trump dijo en su inauguración presidencial By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Samantha Putterman • January 20, 2025 What to know about the LA fire department’s budget and whether Mayor Karen Bass cut funding By Samantha Putterman • January 14, 2025 2 weeks, 450+ posts: How Elon Musk uses his X profile to push FEMA, immigration, voting falsehoods • October 23, 2024
