Frequently Asked Questions

  1. What is Hazard Mitigation?
  2. What Hazards are being considered?

Question: What is Hazard Mitigation?

Answer:

Hazard mitigation is the process of taking planned actions to reduce the probability that potential hazards in a community will turn into actual threats to life and property and/or reducing the impact of such threats if they materialize. Mitigation actions make communities safer, but they do not eliminate risk and vulnerability for all hazards, as some threats cannot be mitigated away.

-Governor's Division of Emergency Management, http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/pages/hazardmitigation.htm


Question: What Hazards are being considered?

Answer:

For this study, only natural hazards are being examined. Manmade or technological hazards are not being considered.