Satellite image of an eastern Pacific hurricane with a clear eye, shown in blue and white infrared shading. This is an illustrative image of a past storm, Hurricane Narda in 2025, not Hurricane Rachel. GOES imagery: CSU/CIRA and NOAA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Federal brief

FEMA's Oct. 6 operations briefing: no new major incidents, Hurricane Rachel and two 90% disturbances on watch, and a Yakama Nation disaster request

FEMA's National Current Operations briefing for Oct. 5-6, 2026, reports no new significant incidents, monitors excessive heat in California, Atlantic disturbance 92L (90%), Category 1 Hurricane Rachel and disturbance 92E (90%) in the Eastern Pacific, and Tropical Storm Koguma in the Western Pacific, and lists a Major Disaster Declaration request from the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. Notice Nearby brief, not Legal Publication.

FEMA's National Current Operations and Monitoring briefing for Oct. 5-6, 2026, reports no new significant incidents or operations and no new significant events.

Hazards FEMA is watching: excessive heat in California. In the Atlantic, Disturbance 1 (Invest 92L) has a high, 90% chance of development. In the Central and Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Rachel is a Category 1 storm, Disturbance 1 (Invest 92E) has a high, 90% chance of development, and Disturbance 2 has a low, 20% chance. In the Western Pacific, FEMA is tracking Tropical Storm Koguma (27W).

Disaster declarations: the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation in Washington have requested a Major Disaster Declaration. A request is not an approval; the president decides after FEMA's review.

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For the latest forecasts and any warnings where you live, check the National Hurricane Center and your local National Weather Service office; Notice Nearby's emergency shelf carries active NWS warnings. FEMA's full daily briefing is a PDF linked from the agency's GovDelivery bulletin.

Source: the official public federal record nn-pubdesk-fema-daily-operations-briefing-2026-10-06-hurricane-rachel-92l-yakama-request · FEMA · Daily Operations Briefing, Oct. 6, 2026 (PDF) · NN-PUBDESK-20261006-06.

This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.