Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan
MARC prepared a Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan in 2004 to help cities and counties on the Missouri side of the metro area identify ways to reduce risks from disaster events. The plan's development and adoption allows local communities to be eligible for certain FEMA pre and post-disaster grant funding.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency makes grants available to local communities through state emergency management offices for projects that reduce risks from natural hazards that could result in loss of life or property damage.
These grants have been used in the Kansas City area to purchase properties and remove homes in flood-prone areas and to bury utility lines. To continue eligibility to apply for these federal grants a community must participate in a five-year update to their hazard mitigation plan. Forty-four participating jurisdictions and school districts recently completed the 2010 update to the Regional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan.
Through local input and evaluation of state and local data, eight natural and four technological hazards were identified as having the greatest potential to impact the Kansas City area: tornadoes and wind storms, river and flash floods, drought, severe winter weather, dam failure, earthquakes, wildfires, heat waves, emerging infectious disease, hazardous materials incidents, civil disorder and mass transportation accidents.
A number of Geographic Information System (GIS) data layers from a new Natural Resource Inventory project are available to local communities to assist in local analysis of natural hazards. Contact our GIS staff for more information.
For more information, please contact Justin Sorg, Emergency Services Planner.
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Storm Protection Model Ordinance Guidance