The FEMA Photo Library (now FEMA Media Library) was an online gallery of photos compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the United States, containing more than 52,000 disaster related photographs taken since 1980.
[1] The majority of the collection is of declared disasters and there are also photographs from significant public events that have occurred on or near the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The photographs are of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, typhoons, fires, avalanches, ice storms, blizzards, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
The subjects of the photographs in the collection: These photographs are in the public domain and are not copyrighted, and the collection is added to during declared disasters when multiple additions occur daily.
In 2019, FEMA website was redesigned and majority of the 52,000 photos disappeared.