Hazard Mitigation Plan: Comment deadline approaching
Posted on 08/14/2025

Deadline approaching: Share feedback on City roadmap for reducing damage from natural disasters by August 22

Published August 14, 2025

Share your comments on the City’s Draft Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) – a roadmap showing what Piedmont could do now to reduce or avoid potential damages from natural hazards like earthquakes, wildfires, and severe weather – by Friday, August 22:

The draft LHMP identifies 21 actions that could help reduce risk to Piedmont, including:

  • Strengthening resilience of IT infrastructure through redundancy and backup systems
  • Retrofitting or replacing critical facilities to meet modern seismic safety codes
  • Annual fire fuel mitigation on City property
  • Strengthening local building and fire codes to require wildfire-resistant construction and more stringent vegetation management standards

    • Since the draft LHMP was published, the project team identified an additional 16 projects to include in the final document based on community input, including:

    • Establishing a Red Flag Weather policy for Piedmont
    • Additional wildfire mitigation measures such as enhancing vegetation management programs for private property and adding fire hydrants for better coverage
    • Considering infrastructure improvements to roads, sidewalks and paths during existing and new projects to improve evacuate routes
    • Backup power projects to ensure redundancy
    • Storm drain upgrades and other drainage improvements

    Including an action in the LHMP does not guarantee that it will happen. Rather, it positions the City to apply for state and federal mitigation grants that could support implementing that project.

    About the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP)

    The Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP):

    • identifies the natural hazards that pose greatest risk to Piedmont
    • documents how each hazard would be likely to impact Piedmont if it were to occur
    • identifies and prioritizes actions the City and community could take now that would prevent or reduce those impacts

    The draft LHMP is the product of nine months of research, discussion, and public engagement. Getting community input on the draft LHMP is the final step before finalizing the document and submitting it to Cal OES for approval. Learn more about the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan update process and read the draft plan at piedmont.ca.gov/LHMP.