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Harford County hazard mitigation plan

Harford County’s plan expires August 4, 2027: 279 days from today. FEMA says to allow at least 18 months from kickoff to approval, so the update should already be under way.

Status
LapsingExpires within a year, update in progress
Expires
Aug 2027279 days from today
Start the update by
NowScope and funding by August 4, 2025
Jurisdictions on file
44 covered by a current plan

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

The update timeline

Plan
Harford County Hazard Mitigation Plan
FEMA approval
August 5, 2022
Expires
August 4, 2027
Line up scope and funding by
August 4, 2025 (passed)
Start the update by
February 4, 2026 (passed)
Status
Expires within a yearupdate in progress

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Every jurisdiction in Harford 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 Harford County and their hazard mitigation plans
JurisdictionStatusExpiresPlan
Harford CountyCountyExpires within a yearupdate in progressAugust 4, 2027279 daysHarford County Hazard Mitigation Plan
AberdeenCityExpires within a yearupdate in progressAugust 4, 2027279 daysHarford County Hazard Mitigation Plan
Bel AirTownExpires within a yearupdate in progressAugust 4, 2027279 daysHarford County Hazard Mitigation Plan
Havre de GraceCityExpires within a yearupdate in progressAugust 4, 2027279 daysHarford County Hazard Mitigation Plan

Plans on file

  • Harford County Hazard Mitigation Plan

    Multi-Jurisdiction · plan in progress

  • Harford County Hazard Mitigation Plan

    Multi-Jurisdiction · approved August 5, 2022 · expires August 4, 2027

The risks the plan has to address

FEMA expects hazards to cost Harford County $51.4M in an average year, led by inland flooding at $29.9M. The county’s climate risk profile ranks every hazard and lists FEMA’s mitigation grants there.

Harford 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 August 4, 2027, according to FEMA’s plan records as of October 29, 2026. The plan is the Harford County Hazard Mitigation Plan, approved by FEMA on August 5, 2022. Local plans have to be updated and approved again every five years.
By February 4, 2026, with the scope and funding lined up by August 4, 2025. 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 3 other jurisdictions with a current approval under the same plan: Aberdeen, Bel Air, Havre de Grace. Each shares the plan’s expiration date, and each has to adopt the update too.
Harford County publishes it at https://www.harfordcountymd.gov/3533/Hazard-Mitigation-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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