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Page 1: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

Mitigation

Page 2: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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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Page 3: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

Reasons to Mitigate

Page 4: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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

Page 5: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

• Infrastructure protection• Flood proofing• Mobile Home

Tie-downs• Safe rooms• Building codes

Page 6: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

• 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

Page 7: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

• Quarterly Meetings

• Information exchange

• Guest speakers

• Funding opportunity and mitigation initiative updates

• Mitigation planning

• Mitigation strategy implementation, tracking, and

evaluation (SITE)

Page 8: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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)

Page 9: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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)

Page 10: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

Flood Hazard

Mitigation Projects

Page 11: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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

Page 12: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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)

Page 13: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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

Page 14: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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

Page 15: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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

Page 16: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

Repetitive Losses

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Letters of Map Change

Page 18: Mitigation. Hazard Mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards and their

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 [email protected]