Hazard Mitigation

Review the CVHMP Draft Plan

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requires localities develop and maintain a plan that examines the risk and impact of natural disasters and establishes strategies to mitigate, or lessen, human and property impacts.  To ensure FEMA mitigation grant fund eligibility, the mitigation plan must be updated every five years.    

Regional Pre-Disaster Hazard Mitigation Plan

The Central Virginia PDC region, through grant funding provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) and area localities, has updated the region’s pre-disaster or Hazard Mitigation Plan.   The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act requires that a pre-disaster or mitigation plan be developed and adopted as a condition for eligibility for federal pre-disaster and some post-disaster funding.

Mitigation is defined as “the action of lessening in severity or intensity”.  The Draft Central Virginia Planning District Hazard Mitigation Plan identifies area susceptibility to hazards (e.g. flooding, severe weather), establishes goals and objectives, and presents strategies, or actions, that can be taken to lessen hazard impacts and build community resilience.  The CVPDC contracted with the Virginia Tech Center for Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT) to guide the pre-disaster planning effort.  The CGIT team, which includes contribution by SOBIS, Inc, in partnership with local stakeholders or Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to develop the pre-hazard mitigation plan.

Learn More About Hazard Mitigation Planning

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

FEMA Hazard Mitigation Planning

Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM)

 For more information contact Kelly Hitchcock