We know disasters will come to Hood River County. How can we reduce the risks from these hazards to our community?
We worked with Oregon's Departments of Forestry, Emergency Management, Geology and Mineral Industries, and Transport; the cities and ports of Hood River and Cascade Locks, special districts, fire departments, and all County departments to create this comprehensive document.
This work was funded by a FEMA grant, and was developed in partnership with the Oregon Partnership for Disasaster Resilience.
The plan outlines community risk for natural hazards and actions local agencies can take to reduce risks BEFORE the next wildfire, winter storm, flood or earthquake.
For this plan we added two new hazards: extreme heat and air quality / smoke.
The team ranked the natural hazards by both the likelihood of an event and its impact to the community:
Wildfire
Winter storm
Drought
Extreme heat
Crustal earthquake
Air quality / smoke
Landslide / debris flow
Cascadia Subduction Zone event
Windstorm
Flood
Volcanic event
We also recognized that the county faces an urgent and specific risk from wildfire. We therefore included an update Community Wildfire Protection Plan as a volume within the NHMP. This means that we have an integrated plan that includes specific actions to help to mitigate the risk from wildfire.
You can read the entire NHMP by selecting the volumes below.
