The City of Los Angeles completed and enacted its most recent Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) in 2024 to lessen the vulnerability to disasters, and demonstrate the City’s commitment to reducing risks from natural hazards. The LHMP serves as a guide for decision makers as they commit City resources to minimize the effects of natural hazards. The plan is intended to integrate with existing planning mechanisms such as building and zoning regulations, long-range planning mechanisms, and environmental planning. The planning process includes conducting a thorough hazard vulnerability analysis, creating community disaster mitigation priorities, and developing subsequent mitigation strategies and projects.
This completed plan -- as approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) -- makes the City eligible to apply for grant funding. Awarded funds may them be used to reduce the City's vulnerability to disasters and helps break the cycles of disaster within its many communities, ensuring a sustainable future for future generations.
Following revisions, LA City's Emergency Management Department (EMD) submitted the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) to the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for their respective reviews and approval. Now, having also been formally adopted by the LA City Council, the final LHMP is available below.
Starting in April 2023, the City of Los Angeles kicked off its latest update of its LHMP to increase the resilience of our communities. This adopted plan identifies and assesses the hazards to which the City is most vulnerable and provides strategies to be implemented over the next five-years -- to reduce the impacts of these disasters.
Feedback at Public Meetings
Los Angeles is committed to a whole community approach in our emergency planning processes. Therefore, the completed 2024 LHMP Draft was made available for public comment from March 20 to April 15, 2024. The LHMP was revised along the way to incorporate feedback received during the public comment period. Thank You for Your Input!
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LHMP Public Feedback Meetings Held (Virtual)
- Public Feedback Session #1 -- March 27, 2024 / Video available here
- Public Feedback Session #2 -- Saturday, April 6, 2024
Hazard Mitigation Planning Process
The LHMP goes through a major update about every five years. Mitigation plans must be reviewed and updated, formally approved by federal and state governing bodies, and then formally adopted by the City as part of receiving approval. LA City’s 2024-2029 LHMP was updated based on regulations found in the current Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
LHMP Steering Committee - 2023-24
As part of the planning process, LA City formed a steering committee to oversee the plan’s update and prepare a public survey. It consisted of governmental as well as non-governmental stakeholders within the planning area. All steering committee meetings were open to public viewing and comment.
- Steering Committee Agenda #1 - April 25, 2023
- Summary - Committee Meeting #1
- Steering Committee Agenda (Packet) #2 - June 20, 2023
- Summary - Committee Meeting #2
- Steering Committee Agenda (Packet) #3 - July 25, 2023
- Summary - Committee Meeting #3
- Steering Committee Agenda #4 - February 27, 2024
Community Hazard Awareness Survey
Los Angeles was committed to engaging stakeholders throughout the LHMP update process. An anonymous survey was designed to help the City better prepare our communities to withstand the hazards and potential disasters most prevalent in the area. The information provided by constituents was then used to directly support the development of strategies and actions to reduce vulnerability to potential hazards.
Thank you, for those who took the time to participate!
Plan Update Oversight
The City’s Emergency Management Department (EMD) was responsible throughout the process for overseeing the plan update.
LHMP State/Federal Approval
As now approved and adopted, the LHMP makes the City eligible to apply for grant funding to reduce vulnerability to disasters within the community and help break the disaster cycle to ensure a sustainable future for Angelenos. Maintaining an up-to-date LHMP is a federal requirement in order for the City to be eligible for certain mitigation grant funding opportunities.
The following mitigation grant funding sources are available through FEMA:
- Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
- Pre-disaster Mitigation Program (PDM)
- Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMA)
- Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
- HMGP Post-Fire Assistance
- Rehabilitation of High Hazard Potential Dam (HHPD)
Related FEMA Links and Other Resources