Local Planning
A community plan that identifies actions to be done now to help alleviate disaster conditions in the future. Hazards Mitigation Plan will help your town or city to break the cycle of repeated damages, improve a community's competitiveness for federal grant programs, especially the post-disaster Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) as well as the pre-disaster Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA), and most importantly achieve other community goals as well, such as increasing communication and disaster awareness.
You may download a copy of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning: A Community Guide here 
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Local Plan Status
FEMA Region 1 has approved 123 local hazard mitigation plans in Massachusetts. The list below represents the communities with a FEMA approved local plan as of October 28, 2008:
Abington | Andover | Aquinnah | Ashfield |
Attleboro | Avon | Becket | Berkley |
Bernardston | Beverly | Billerica | Boston |
Bourne | Braintree | Bridgewater | Brockton |
Brookline | Buckland | Carver | Charlemont |
Chatham | Chelmsford | Chelsea | Chesterfield |
Chilmark | Cohasset | Colrain | Conway |
Dartmouth | Deerfield | Dracut | Dunstable |
East Bridgewater | Eastham | Easton | Edgartown |
Erving | Framingham | Gill | Gosnold |
Greenfield | Halifax | Hanson | Harwich |
Haverhill | Hawley | Heath | Hinsdale |
Holyoke | Hull | Kingston | Lenox |
Leverett | Lowell | Ludlow | Lynn |
Lynnfield | Malden | Marblehead | Marshfield |
Mashpee | Melrose | Methuen | Middleborough |
Milton | Monroe | Montague | Nahant |
Nantucket | New Bedford | New Salem | Newburyport |
North Andover | North Reading | Northfield | Oak Bluffs |
Orange | Orleans | Peabody | Pembroke |
Pepperell | Plainville | Plymouth | Plympton |
Provincetown | Quincy | Rehoboth | Revere |
Rochester | Rowe | Salem | Salisbury |
Sandwich | Saugus | Scituate | Shelburne |
Somerville | Southwick | Stockbridge | Stoughton |
Sunderland | Swampscott | Swansea | Taunton |
Tewksbury | Tisbury | Tyngsborough | Tyringham |
Wakefield | Wellfleet | Wendell | West Bridgewater |
West Tisbury | Westford | Westport | Weymouth |
Whately | Whitman | Williamstown | Winchester |
Winthrop | Woburn |
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