mitigation. hazard mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to...

Mitigation

MitigationHazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their effects.

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Reasons to Mitigate

Mitigation Projects• Acquisition• Drainage• Elevation• Retrofit/hardening

• Infrastructure protection• Flood proofing• Mobile Home

Tie-downs• Safe rooms• Building codes

• Authorized by 44 CFR

• Local: requires each jurisdiction

to have an adopted Local Mitigation

Strategy (LMS) in order to receive

federal mitigation grants

• State: Florida is an Enhanced State

Mitigation Planning

• Quarterly Meetings

• Information exchange

• Guest speakers

• Funding opportunity and mitigation initiative updates

• Mitigation planning

• Mitigation strategy implementation, tracking, and

evaluation (SITE)

Post-disaster GrantsHazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)

20 years:

•38 disaster declarations administered

•2300+ mitigation projects managed

•$797 million in federal funding allocated

• 24 disasters reconciled and closed ($138 million)

• 14 disasters currently being managed ($658 million)

Non-disaster Grants

• Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)• Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)• Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)• Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)• Residential Construction

Mitigation Grant Program (RCMP)

Flood Hazard

Mitigation Projects

State FloodplainManagement

Office

• Monitor communities through visits and interviews• Offer technical assistance to local officials, developers,

professionals and property owners•Coordinate with the Community Rating System program•Oversee local training across the state

Other State Floodplain Office activities

•Coordinate with Map Modernization

& FEMA Risk MAP priorities

•Integration of flood-resistant standards

into the statewide building code

•Coordination with federal flood

mitigation grant programs

• Integration of floodplain management concepts and tasksinto Local Mitigation Strategies (one in each of 67 Florida counties)

Other State Floodplain Office Activities

• Floodplain management and flooding issues

pertaining to the state’s Enhanced Hazard

Mitigation Plan and planning processes• State agency management of state-owned facilities in

special flood hazard areas• Coordination with the Florida Dam Safety Program• Partnerships with federal, state and local organizations

pertinent to floodplain management and related matters

The National Flood Insurance Program in Florida

• 38% of all NFIP policies in the nation• 2.1 million policyholders• 458 communities participating (99%)• 217 in the Community Rating System

program (47%)• Nationally award-winning program

Flood Protection & ManagementSummary Statistics

Pensacola Bay Watershed

Number of Insurance Policies 17,996

Premium Total for Basin ($) $ 14,254,792

# of Flood Mitigation Projects 38

# of Repetitive Losses in Basin 2,334

# of LOMC in Basin 127

Repetitive Losses

Letters of Map Change

For more information aboutthe National Flood Insurance Program in Florida,

please contact:

The State Floodplain Management OfficeFlorida Division of Emergency Management

2555 Shumard Oak Blvd.Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100

(850) 413-9960 or floods@em.myflorida.com