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Hazard mitigation plan tracker

Worcester County hazard mitigation plan

Worcester County’s last plan expired October 5, 2025. FEMA lists an update in progress. Until FEMA approves the update, the county can’t apply for or receive FEMA mitigation project grants (44 CFR 201.6).

Status
ExpiredExpired, update in progress
Expired
Oct 2025October 5, 2025
Start the update by
NowFEMA allows 18 months to approval
Jurisdictions on file
51 covered by a current plan

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

The update timeline

Plan
Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan
FEMA approval
October 6, 2020
Expired
October 5, 2025
Status
Expiredupdate in progress

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Every jurisdiction in Worcester 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 Worcester County and their hazard mitigation plans
JurisdictionStatusExpiresPlan
Worcester CountyCountyExpiredupdate in progressOctober 5, 2025Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan
BerlinTownExpiredupdate in progressOctober 5, 2025Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan
Ocean CityTownUpdate should be under wayupdate in progressMarch 19, 2028507 daysOcean City Hazard Mitigation Plan
Pocomoke CityCityExpiredupdate in progressOctober 5, 2025Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan
Snow HillTownExpiredupdate in progressOctober 5, 2025Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan

Plans on file

  • Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan

    Multi-Jurisdiction · plan in progress

  • Ocean City Hazard Mitigation Plan

    Single Jurisdiction · approved March 20, 2023 · expires March 19, 2028

  • Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan

    Multi-Jurisdiction · approved October 6, 2020 · expired October 5, 2025

The risks the plan has to address

FEMA expects hazards to cost Worcester County $25.5M in an average year, led by hurricane at $10.5M. The county’s climate risk profile ranks every hazard and lists FEMA’s mitigation grants there.

Worcester 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 expired October 5, 2025, according to FEMA’s plan records as of October 29, 2026. The plan is the Worcester County Hazard Mitigation Plan, approved by FEMA on October 6, 2020. Local plans have to be updated and approved again every five years.
FEMA lists 1 other jurisdiction with a current approval under the same plan: Ocean City. Each shares the plan’s expiration date, and each has to adopt the update too.
Worcester County publishes it at https://worcestermd.gov/sites/default/files/departments/emergency/06.24.2020%20Hazard%20Mitigation%20Resiliency%20Plan.pdf. 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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