This planning effort is being conducted in accordance with the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, which requires all local, county, tribal and state governments to have a FEMA approved hazard mitigation plan to be eligible for federal disaster mitigation funds. The plan focuses on the area’s most threatening hazards and provides a strategy to reduce or eliminate the risk from those hazards to the people and property of Mohave County.

Mitigation is not a response to emergencies like floods and wildfires, but rather is a jurisdiction’s strategy for preventing or significantly reducing the impact of such hazards prior to their occurrence. The mitigation planning process involves identifying and profiling the natural hazards most likely to occur in a community, assessing the vulnerability of critical community facilities and structures, as well as population, to these hazards, and establishing goals, actions, and projects that mitigate the associated risks.