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Hazard mitigation plan tracker

Caroline County hazard mitigation plan

Caroline County’s plan expires November 24, 2029: 1,122 days from today. FEMA says to allow at least 18 months from kickoff to approval, so the update should start by May 24, 2028.

Status
CurrentCurrent
Expires
Nov 20291,122 days from today
Start the update by
May 2028Scope and funding by November 24, 2027
Jurisdictions on file
1111 covered by a current plan

FEMA data retrieved October 29, 2026, read again daily · How we read it

The update timeline

Plan
Caroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
FEMA approval
November 25, 2024
Expires
November 24, 2029
Line up scope and funding by
November 24, 2027
Start the update by
May 24, 2028
Status
Current

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Every jurisdiction in Caroline County

The county and the towns inside it, as FEMA lists them. A town shares its county plan’s dates only if it took part and adopted the plan.

Jurisdictions in Caroline County and their hazard mitigation plans
JurisdictionStatusExpiresPlan
Caroline CountyCountyCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
DentonTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
FederalsburgTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
GoldsboroTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
GreensboroTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
HendersonTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
HillsboroTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
MarydelTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
PrestonTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
RidgelyTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan
TemplevilleTownCurrentNovember 24, 20291,122 daysCaroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan

Plans on file

  • Queen Anne’s County Hazard Mitigation Plan

    Multi-Jurisdiction · approved August 18, 2025 · expires August 17, 2030

  • Caroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan

    Multi-Jurisdiction · approved November 25, 2024 · expires November 24, 2029

The risks the plan has to address

FEMA expects hazards to cost Caroline County $12.5M in an average year, led by hurricane at $4.8M. The county’s climate risk profile ranks every hazard and lists FEMA’s mitigation grants there.

Caroline County climate risk profile

How we read FEMA’s data

Every status here comes from FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Plan Statuses dataset (OpenFEMA API, v1 endpoint), retrieved October 29, 2026 at 7:12 PM EDT and read again once a day.

FEMA lists one record for each jurisdiction in each plan. We group the records by jurisdiction: one is current while any plan it adopted has an approval that hasn’t expired. “Approvable pending adoption” means FEMA has approved the plan and is waiting on the jurisdiction to adopt it. Plan updates run on a five-year cycle (44 CFR 201.6), and the update dates follow FEMA’s 2025 Local Mitigation Planning Handbook: allow at least 18 months from kickoff to approval, and line up the scope and funding by the plan’s third year. We leave out records FEMA labels as tests.

This is a planning aid, not an eligibility ruling: confirm grant eligibility with your state hazard mitigation officer or FEMA.

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency’s website(s).

Frequently Asked Questions

It runs to November 24, 2029, according to FEMA’s plan records as of October 29, 2026. The plan is the Caroline County Hazard Mitigation Plan, approved by FEMA on November 25, 2024. Local plans have to be updated and approved again every five years.
By May 24, 2028, with the scope and funding lined up by November 24, 2027. FEMA’s 2025 Local Mitigation Planning Handbook says to allow at least 18 months from kickoff to approval, six of them for state and FEMA review, and to line up the update by the plan’s third year.
FEMA lists 10 other jurisdictions with a current approval under the same plan: Denton, Federalsburg, Goldsboro, Greensboro, Henderson, Hillsboro, Marydel, Preston, Ridgely, Templeville. Each shares the plan’s expiration date, and each has to adopt the update too.
Caroline County publishes it at https://www.carolinemd.org/DocumentCenter/View/10142/2024-Caroline-County-Hazard-Mitigation-Plan_Official-Plan. FEMA’s records show its approval and expiration dates; the plan itself sets out the county’s hazards and the projects it intends to fund.
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