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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 PDF.

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