Disaster Podcasts
After The Disaster
Australian Red Cross and the University of Melbourne
After you've experienced a disaster, be it a fire, a terrorist attack, a cyclone or a flood there is so much to work through. What should you expect? How do you look after yourself and the people around you? Why are relationships, the endless paperwork, emotions and parenting so hard right now? When are things going to feel normal again?
From how to manage insurance to supporting kids, After the Disaster offers practical tips and evidence-based advice.
GeoTrek
GeoTrek
GeoTrek investigates the impacts of extreme weather and natural disasters on individuals and communities. The goal is to help improve your decision making, risk assessment and communication related to extreme events, so you can take action to make yourself, your family and your community more resilient. Guests include scientists, storm chasers, farmers, urban planners, disaster response professionals, and explorers.
The Response
Shareable
A journey through a diverse collection of remarkable communities and movements figuring out how to build power, solidarity, and connection in a world beset by disasters — both natural and human-caused.
From hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more, The Response's audio documentaries and interviews highlight some of the most inspiring stories of response and pave a path towards the better world we know is possible.
Doing Disasters Differently
Resilient Ready
Hosted by Renae Hanvin, founder of Resilient Ready (formerly corporate2community), the podcast invites disaster experts from businesses, communities, governments and non-profits to chat about what we need to think and do differently when it comes to before, during and after disasters.
Hurricane Center: Preparing for the Storm
National Tropical Weather Conference
Conversations with the top hurricane scientists, forecasters, emergency/disaster managers, and storms chasers about science, preparation and being at ground zero.
Innovating on the Frontlines: The FireTech Podcast
Wonderland Labs
This mini podcast delivers insights from innovators on the frontlines of the wildfire crisis in America. Host Shefali Lakhina asks how innovation unfolds in public agencies tasked with wildfire preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery.
Earthquake Science Centers Seminar
U.S. Geological Survey
Open dialogue about important issues in earthquake science presented by Center scientists, visitors, and invitees.
DesignSafe Radio
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure
Through rigorous testing and outreach programs, the team at the National Science Foundation-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) is committed to making sure the next natural hazard doesn't have to be a disaster for you and your family.
Disaster Podcast
Jamie Davis, Sam Bradley, Joe Holley, and Kyle Nelson
Disaster Podcast focuses on emergency response at all levels. Offering discussions of current disaster events, topics span a vast range of concerns related to studying, preparing for, and living in a world of hazards and disasters—including rural disasters, acts of terror or violence, and safety tips for researching disasters. This podcast offers academic and scientific discussion that more advanced researchers may find useful.
Disaster Tough
John Scardena
The #1 rated emergency management podcast by emergency managers, for emergency managers. John Scardena, a former Federal Emergency Response Official with Type 1 response experience, speaks with other experts in the field. They share stories, lessons learned, and tips to help you make informed decisions. Episode discussions revolve around the entire disaster life-cycle, providing solutions based on training and backed by data. Conversation-mode activated, the Disaster Tough podcast is both informative and engaging, flipping from serious to humor without warning.
Disaster Zone
Eric Holdeman, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience
Disaster Zone is a podcast that focuses on all facets of disasters; the before, during and after of events that are increasingly impacting communities around the world. The podcasts feature a mix of guests covering a range of disasters and issues that flow from them.
A Little Louder
Texas Housers
A Little Louder is a podcast from Texas Housers—hosted by John Henneberger and Christina Rosales—that focses on fair housing, community development, and community efforts to work toward just cities and inclusive neighborhoods.
Ripple
Western Sound and APM Studios
The BP Oil spill—the largest oil spill in American history—captivated the public's attention for the entire summer of 2010. Authorities told a story of a herculean response effort that made shorelines safe and avoided a worst case scenario. Was that really the whole picture?
Ripple is a new series investigating the stories we were told were over.
The Big Disaster: The Big Burn
LAist
As the world enters a new age of wildfires, science reporter Jacob Margolis hosts a deep dive into personal stories that illuminate the history of how we got here, why we keep screwing things up, and what we can do to survive and maybe even thrive while the world around us burns. This podcast introduces a wildfire survival guide that includes not just tangible safety tips — but hope for our future.
Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America
KQED
The third season of Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America, examines the intersection of the climate and housing crises. The series tells the stories of families throughout California, as they grapple with the ways that climate change is challenging our very idea of home, and their ability to live in the state.
The natural disaster economist
Planet Money
Tatyana Deryugina is a leading expert on the economics of natural disasters — how we respond to them, how they affect the economy, and how they change our lives, and her research has some surprising implications for how we should be responding to natural disasters.
The Big One: Your survival guide
LAist
When "The Big One" hits California, it’ll take under two minutes for more than 10 million Southern Californians to lose internet, power, and a sense of security. This podcast tells you what you need to know to survive.
How We Survive Season 2: Saving Miami
Marketplace
Miami is one of the most vulnerable coastal cities in the world because of climate change. By the end of the century, sea levels around Miami could rise by 5 feet or more, submerging many neighborhoods and making them unlivable. Statewide, up to $23 billion worth of existing property will likely be underwater by 2050. South Florida could be one of the first regions in the United States to see true devastation wrought by the climate crisis, devastation that threatens its very existence. This season of How We Survive follows the money to the end of the world — in this case, South Florida.
In Deep - One city's year of climate chaos.
APM Reports
In one year, Lake Charles, Louisiana, endured two hurricanes, an ice storm and a flood. The federal government promised help. Lake Charles is still waiting. And rebuilding on its own. In Deep season 2 shines a light on environmental equity with a rich journalistic portrait of a working-class city and its residents at a perilous moment in our planet's existence.
Collapse
Stuff
On February 22, 2011, a devastating earthquake shook Christchurch, killing 185 people. One hundred and fifteen of those people were in the CTV building - a structure that should never have been built.
In the 10 years since the disaster, serious flaws have been exposed in the design, construction and inspection of the CTV building. No-one has been held accountable for those errors. On the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, this podcast looks at how a disaster became mired in controversy and why calls for justice endure today.
Floodlines
The Atlantic
Some call it Hurricane Katrina. Some call it the Federal Flood. Others call it the day the levees broke. On August 29, 2005, the city of New Orleans was submerged. That story of hubris, incompetence, and nature's wrath is now etched into the national consciousness. But the people who lived through the flood and its aftermath have a different story to tell. A story of rumors, betrayal, and one of the most misunderstood events in American history.
Resilience Roundtable Podcast Series
American Planning Association (APA)
In the APA Podcast series Resilience Roundtable, we hear from planners and allied professionals who make resilience their mission, even in the face of devastating natural hazards.
Tough Shift: Managing Social Change in Disasters Jordan Pascoe and Mitch Stripling
Jordan Pascoe (a feminist philosopher) and Mitch Stripling (an emergency manager) explore how disasters can birth social change (or kill it) in this limited series with experts, in-jokes, and drinking games. Based on their new book.
Before, During, and After
Federal Emergency Management Agency
"Before, During & After" is a podcast for emergency managers, with insights into where emergency management is headed, conversation about preparing for the threats of tomorrow and how everyone has a role in keeping communities safe from disaster.
Preparedness Works
Nat Sellers
The Preparedness Guy, Nat Sellers, focuses on the stories of those who utilized emergency preparedness to improve their lives. Nat is a professional emergency manager and leads conversations that help the everyday prepper to do it right.
Disasters: Deconstructed
Ksenia Chmutina and Jason Von Meding
This podcast reflects on human society from diverse disciplinary and ideological perspectives to understand the root causes of disasters.
EM Weekly
Zack Borst
The EM Weekly podcast An emergency management podcast by emergency managers who talk about emergency management while emergency managing. Led by Zack Borst, this show is designed to kick-back and talk shop within the emergency management community.
COVID-19 Calls
Scott Gabriel Knowles
COVID-Calls is a daily discussion of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Making Resilience Cool
U.S. Resiliency Council
The podcast is tailored toward exposing younger generations to the concepts of structural disaster resilience and providing information on how they can contribute to efforts to make communities safer in disasters.
Dukes of Hazards: The Emergency Management Podcast Mitch Stripling and Andrew McMahan
The Dukes of Hazards host a podcast about disaster response, emergency management, mobilization culture, community resilience, and life in emergency operations.
Katrina: The Debris
WWNO
As the 10th hurricane season begins since the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, 89.9 WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio is launching a new weekly podcast and radio feature: Katrina: The Debris, stories about what was left behind by the storm and the floods that followed.
Combining archival material with new interviews and long-format feature stories, Katrina: The Debris aims to pick up some of the narrative threads of the storm, and follow them into the present and future.