Due to the added complexities of conducting building performance assessments while taking preventative measures to protect the health and safety of disaster survivors and the disaster workforce, an added emphasis was placed on remote assessments or inspections during the 2020 hurricane season. The FEMA Building Science Branch evaluates the performance of buildings and related infrastructure in response to the effects of natural hazards. The conclusions and recommendations from these assessments are normally published in a Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) Report. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network deepens the structural natural hazards engineering (NHE) community’s capacity for reliable post-event reconnaissance. StEER’s mandate is to collect perishable data swiftly and systematically in order to inform the continued study of a disaster through subsequent in-depth data collection that addresses specific research questions. This presentation will focus on our experience in collaborating among the FEMA Building Science Branch, NSF StEER, and other post-event damage assessments efforts; building performance observations related to flood loads following Hurricane Laura; as well as data leveraged throughout the process to facilitate their building assessments. Our goal is to help communities leverage resources so that post-disaster damage assessment can be used for a variety of purposes (FEMA preliminary damage assessment, building safety evaluation, substantial damage, building performance assessment, etc.). In addition, we hope to share best practices related to building performance and floodplain management requirements, to help improve flood resistant design and construction based on observations from Hurricane Laura.