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McFarland Hazard Mitigation Plan Update 2023

The City of McFarland is in the process of updating its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to reduce losses resulting from natural disasters. This plan strives to identify and reduce vulnerability of the City’s residents, visitors, and infrastructure to future hazard events.

How to Participate

Did you know that hazard mitigation can reduce recovery costs, damages, and injuries following a natural disaster event? Use this website to learn about upcoming events, project milestones, and mitigation techniques you can use at home! Our goal is to ensure the final plan reflects the needs and concerns of the McFarland community.

Take the Survey

We want to hear from you! Take this short survey to help our planning team better understand community perceptions of natural hazard risks. Results will inform mitigation priorities in the final HMP. Share your email with us and be entered to win a gift certificate to a local hardware store!

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Get Informed

Find resources to better understand your household’s risk to various natural hazards, and mitigation actions you can take at home to reduce your risk of injuries and damages.

Mitigation at Home

Why Have a Plan?

Goals of Public Engagement

Understand safety and hazard concerns, problem areas, assets, and policy and mitigation priorities on a neighborhood scale
Collaborate with adjacent communities, special districts, utility providers, and other local regulatory agencies providing public safety services
Provide information and tools to community members, residents and businesses to increase safety and decrease hazard risk at the (private) parcel level