Amador County 2025 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Update:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) defines Hazard Mitigation as, “any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to life and property from natural hazards.”  Another way to understand hazard mitigation is as the prevention component of the emergency management process.

• Preparedness activities are the emergency plans, training, drills, and exercises that individuals, communities, and first responders participate in on almost a daily basis.  These are things done to get ready for an emergency or disaster before it happens.
• Response is the short-term, emergency actions taken to address and reduce the immediate impacts of a hazard event or disaster.
• Recovery is the longer-term process of restoring the community back to normal or pre-disaster conditions.
• Mitigation, or prevention, activities are actions that will prevent or eliminate losses, even if an incident does occur. Mitigation can reduce or eliminate the need for an emergency response and greatly reduce the recovery period.

To address Hazard Mitigation in Amador County, Amador County is partnering with the incorporated communities of Amador City, Ione, Jackson, Plymouth, and Sutter Creek, and several special districts to update their 2021 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP).

Flood, drought, wildfire, and severe weather are just a few of the natural hazards of concern to Amador County.  While natural hazards such as these cannot be prevented, an LHMP forms the foundation for a community's long-term strategy to reduce disaster losses by breaking the repeated cycle of disaster damage and reconstruction.   Communities with a FEMA- approved LHMP are eligible for FEMA pre- and post-disaster grant funding and are better positioned to respond and recover when disasters occur. 

The LHMP development process is as important as the plan itself.  It creates a framework for risk-based decision making to reduce damages to lives, property, the environment, and the economy from future disasters.

2021 LHMP (This is what we are updating)

Amador County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan 2021

 2025 LHMP Update

Amador County is kicking off their LHMP Update with meetings in December 2024.  The LHMP will address an updated list of hazards, will assess the likely impacts of these hazards to the people and assets of the Amador County planning area, and will also establish updated goals and prioritize mitigation projects to reduce the impacts of future disasters on people and property, critical facilities and infrastructure, and the environment, as well as to local economies.

Opportunities for Input

Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee (HMPC) and public meetings will also be held as part of the plan development process.  In addition to plan participation by Amador County; participating jurisdictions; and  local, state, and federal agencies and other stakeholders, the public is encouraged to attend and participate in our HMPC and public meetings. 

A HMPC meeting has been scheduled for December 4, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  A Public Meeting has been scheduled for December 4, 2024 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Both meetings will be held in the Board of Supervisors chambers, located at 810 Court Street, Jackson, CA, 95642.

For more information on this project and how to be involved, contact Sgt Matt Girton at (209) 223-6384 or mgirton@amadorgov.org.

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