Upcoming LMS Meeting

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Location: TBA
Time: 9:30 a.m.
For more information, please call OEM at 305-468-5400.

Why Mitigation?

Miami-Dade County, in fact, all of South Florida, is vulnerable to disasters of all types affecting every part of our community; no one is immune. We’ve suffered hurricanes, tornadoes, severe flooding, lightening, wildfires, plane crashes, hard freezes, droughts, citrus canker, mass migration and more. Interested in learning more? 

• Completed projects of the LMS  (10.40 MB)
• Rules for Submitting Projects 

Local Mitigation Strategy Working Group

The Local Mitigation Strategy Working Group has created the Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS), which is updated semi-annually on June 30th and December 31st. The LMS Working Group is made up of representatives from Miami-Dade municipalities, county departments, state and federal agencies, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, and private for profit and not-for-profit organizations. 

A FEMA approved LMS document enables members of the working group to access available funding for mitigation such as, but not limited to, the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Pre-Disaster Mitigation, Flood Mitigation Assistance, Severe Repetitive Loss, and Repetitive Flood Claims. The latest published version of the Local Mitigation Strategy is available here for public scrutiny and commentary. Please send your comments via e-mail.

• LMS Meeting Minutes 

Download the Local Mitigation Strategy

The Local Mitigation Strategy is presented here in Adobe Acrobat* (pdf) format for viewing and printing. Since the document is quite large, it has been divided into four parts to make it easier to download. Users with high-speed Internet access may wish to download the entire book.

Entire LMS Document  (8.78 MB)

Part I: The Strategy  
The Local Mitigation Strategy of Miami-Dade County, its Municipalities, and Partners

Part II: The Projects  (1.64 MB)
Potential Mitigation Initiatives for Metropolitan Miami-Dade County

Part III: The Funding 
Potential Funding Sources

Part IV: The Appendices (4.78MB)

• LMS Progress Report