This website hosts information regarding local hazard mitigation planning and provides a means for local governments to utilize the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) 2010 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, and updated version to the 2005 plan, already approved by FEMA. The site provides links to the Plan, interactive maps showing areas at risk due to events such as flooding, wildfire, and landslides (based on historic data), and strategic priorities and actions submitted by individual agencies participating in the 2009-2010 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. The Plan identifies natural hazards with the greatest impact to the Bay Area as earthquakes and weather related events. These events include climate change, flooding, landslides, wildfires and drought, and the plan acknowledges the role climate change plays in increasing the frequency and intensity of these hazards.

Specific chapters of the plan address infrastructure (including transportation), health care, housing, economy, government, schools and education, environment and land use. For each of these sectors, the chapter includes various strategies to address earthquake, flooding, wildfire, landslide, tsunamis, hazardous materials release and dam failure. Additionally, the chapters outline regional priorities for these strategies.

The Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000) outlines a process which cities, counties, and special districts can follow to develop a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. Development of this plan is a requirement for certain benefits from CalEMA and FEMA. To assist local governments in meeting this requirement, ABAG is the lead agency on the multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (MJ-LHMP) for the San Francisco Bay Area. Cities and counties can adopt and use all or part of this multi-jurisdictional plan in lieu of preparing all or part of a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan themselves. However, they need to have participated in the development of the multi-jurisdictional plan to adopt it. The plan was originally adopted in 2005. The 2010 plan has been adopted by ABAG and local jurisdictions are in the process of updating their annexes.