Ask any state, local or tribal government and they will tell you. Hazard mitigation planning is a necessary, but painstaking process. There’s extensive research and risk assessments to be done, stakeholder meetings to be facilitated, HAZUS®-MH maps to be run, and copious amounts of information to be shared. Plus, in order to remain eligible for certain mitigation grants from FEMA, you have to go through the process of updating your plan every five years.
The Hazard Mitigation Plan Module within the BOLDplanning platform can help ease this burden. It can even use the data from within your organization’s other BOLDplanning plans, i.e., Continuity of Operations/Government (COOP/COG) and Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), and vice versa, to further streamline and speed the planning process. How so?