Given the frequency and severity of recent natural disasters, everyone, regardless of where they are, is seeing the adverse effects of climate change. And while no one can prevent extreme weather events, including flooding, wildfires, and tornadoes, they can reduce the impact on their community. As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) strongly emphasizes, this is best achieved through hazard mitigation planning.
Accordingly, FEMA issued an updated policy on December 7, 2022, to partially implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS) for