Charles County Hazard Mitigation Plan

Name: Charles County hazard mitigation plan status
Creator: Council Fire

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

The update timeline

Plan: Charles County Hazard Mitigation Plan
FEMA approval: December 10, 2024
Expires: December 9, 2029
Line up scope and funding by: December 9, 2027
Start the update by: June 9, 2028
Status: Current

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Charles County’s status, the update dates and the guides for planning it, in one email.

Every jurisdiction in Charles 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 Charles County and their hazard mitigation plans
Jurisdiction	Status	Expires	Plan
Charles CountyCounty	Current	December 9, 20291,137 days	Charles County Hazard Mitigation Plan
Indian HeadTown	Current	December 9, 20291,137 days	Charles County Hazard Mitigation Plan
La PlataTown	Current	December 9, 20291,137 days	Charles County Hazard Mitigation Plan
Port Tobacco VillageTown	Approvable pending adoption	December 9, 20291,137 days	Charles County Hazard Mitigation Plan

The risks the plan has to address

FEMA expects hazards to cost Charles County $22.5M in an average year, led by inland flooding at $10.9M. The county’s climate risk profile ranks every hazard and lists FEMA’s mitigation grants there.

Charles 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 December 9, 2029, according to FEMA’s plan records as of October 29, 2026. The plan is the Charles County Hazard Mitigation Plan, approved by FEMA on December 10, 2024. Local plans have to be updated and approved again every five years.

By June 9, 2028, with the scope and funding lined up by December 9, 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 2 other jurisdictions with a current approval under the same plan: Indian Head, La Plata. Each shares the plan’s expiration date, and each has to adopt the update too.

Charles County publishes it at https://www.charlescountymd.gov/services/emergency-services/emergency-preparedness/sandbags/2023-hazard-mitigation-plan-update-process. 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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