mitigation. hazard mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to...
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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.
Investing a dollar now to save four dollars in the future…
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 [email protected]