A few days after Hurricane Harvey caused massive destruction in the southern states of the United States, including Texas primarily, a new powerful cyclone, dubbed “Irma”, was approaching the American coast near Florida at a speed of almost 200 kilometers per hour. The total damage caused to the US economy by two hurricanes Harvey and Irma reached up to 290 billion dollars and caused the deaths of dozens of Americans. According to Joel Myers, president of the consulting company AccuWeather, the number of losses that the United States suffered from the disaster was record high (Allen & Davis, 2017). It is suggested that storm-related disasters do not happen when people, infrastructure, and society are ready for them. Wise (2006) proposed applying a new approach to handling disasters and their adverse consequences, adaptive management, that would ensure the catastrophe’s devastation will be mitigated. This paper will discuss the adaptive management approach to hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the Incident Command System applied to hurricane Irma and its structure. Historic disasters, such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, spurred disaster prevention efforts that saved many lives. Local authorities urged people not to panic, to keep in touch with emergency centers, listen to the news, and follow the instructions of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The American authorities have prepared a particular memo for residents of crisis regions. It included measures that needed to be taken to protect yourself during a hurricane (FEMA, 2018). People could also find out in advance where the shelter was located, advised to use only protected routes during the evacuation, and secure homes. However, not every proposed method and action was fully implemented in Texas during the Harvey storm. Moreover, Wise (2006) mentions that federalized National Guard troops performed better after the Katrina hurricane in 2005 than FEMA. Therefore, the adaptive management system was proposed after the devastating Katrina to tackle future storms by Homeland Security. Wise (2006) proposed the approach based on three combined processes: “risk assessment, information feedback to decision-makers, and adjustment of performance based on current information” (p. 314). Adaptive management highlights the importance of feedback in developing the policy with continuous experimentation and evaluation. In the case of Harvey, it was needed to implement several essential steps in the process of preparation. Local authorities, National Guard troops, FEMA and the Homeland Security representatives had to meet and together and “discuss the problem and any available data, then moving on to develop models of the problem” (Wise, 2006, p. 314) that lacked previously during Katrina and was a failure during Harvey upcoming. Then the adaptive model proposes the evaluation of goals established and uncertainties and data gaps projected. In the case of Harvey, mobile phone delivery alerts could be implemented, and the protection of the nearest plants from explosions that occurred could be mitigated in advance (Lohrmann, 2017). Furthermore, according to the adaptive management model, management and monitoring plans are executed and gathered data is analyzed to evaluate w