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Howard County hazard mitigation plan

Howard County’s plan expires November 5, 2028: 738 days from today. FEMA says to allow at least 18 months from kickoff to approval, so the update should start by May 5, 2027.

Status
CurrentCurrent
Expires
Nov 2028738 days from today
Start the update by
May 2027Scope and funding by November 5, 2026
Jurisdictions on file
11 covered by a current plan

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

The update timeline

Plan
Howard County Hazard Mitigation Plan
FEMA approval
November 6, 2023
Expires
November 5, 2028
Line up scope and funding by
November 5, 2026
Start the update by
May 5, 2027
Status
Current

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Every jurisdiction in Howard 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 Howard County and their hazard mitigation plans
JurisdictionStatusExpiresPlan
Howard CountyCountyCurrentNovember 5, 2028738 daysHoward County Hazard Mitigation Plan

The risks the plan has to address

FEMA expects hazards to cost Howard County $52M 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.

Howard 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 5, 2028, according to FEMA’s plan records as of October 29, 2026. The plan is the Howard County Hazard Mitigation Plan, approved by FEMA on November 6, 2023. Local plans have to be updated and approved again every five years.
By May 5, 2027, with the scope and funding lined up by November 5, 2026. 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.
Howard County publishes it at https://www.howardcountymd.gov/emergency-management/2024-2029-howard-county-hazard-mitigation-plan-update. 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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