Data story · Hazard mitigation

Where every county’s hazard plan stands

Eleven counties, eleven plans, one list on GHRPC’s website. Here is that list as a map, a table you can sort and a draft you can open, with a plain-language summary beside it.

From GHRPC’s Hazard Mitigation page, captured September 22, 2026 · Contact: Amanda George, Hazard Mitigation Specialist

Late sun over a green hillside pasture, with a wooden barn and a line of trees. — Photograph from ghrpc.org.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency defines hazard mitigation as “any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk to human life and property from hazards.” It works best when it rests on a plan written before a disaster, not after one.

That plan is not optional. FEMA requires every county to have an adopted all-hazards mitigation plan to be eligible for federal hazard mitigation funds. The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 made plans a condition of those grants.

Missouri’s State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) partners with the regional planning commissions to help counties write them: countywide, multi-jurisdictional, multi-hazard plans. In the Green Hills region, that work runs through GHRPC.

Questions about a county’s plan?

Amanda George
Transportation Planner, Hazard Mitigation Specialist and GIS mapping

amanda@ghrpc.org
(660) 359-5636 ext. 11

By the numbers

Our tally, counted from GHRPC’s list “All Hazard Mitigation Plans in the Green Hills Region”. GHRPC doesn’t publish these totals.

Counties on the list: 11
Marked “2025 draft”: 7
Marked “2025 Approved” (Grundy): 1
Marked “(2025)” only (Chariton): 1
No year given (Caldwell, Mercer): 2
With a dated draft posted on ghrpc.org: 5

County boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau (TIGERweb, 2026), drawn in the page from GeoJSON. On the live site, GHRPC’s own ArcGIS Pro exports are drawn the same way. No embedded map service.

The map

Each county is shaded and labeled with its status, word for word from GHRPC’s list. Select a county to jump to its row in the table.

2025 Approved solid green · 1 county
2025 draft striped · 7 counties
(2025) dotted · 1 county, status not stated
No year given plain · 2 counties

Status is never shown by color alone: every county carries its status in words, and each shade has its own pattern.

Every county, in a table

Sort by any column. The table says everything the map says, in words.

Hazard mitigation plans in the Green Hills regionStatus is verbatim from GHRPC’s Hazard Mitigation page. Dates are when a draft was posted on ghrpc.org.
County	Status on GHRPC’s list	Latest dated draft posted	Public planning meetings, 2025	Read it
Caldwell	No year given	None posted	None posted	—
Carroll	2025 draft	Nov. 14, 2025	None posted	Carroll County HMP Draft 11-14-2025
Chariton	(2025)	None posted	None posted	—
Daviess	2025 draft	Oct. 30, 2025 Earlier draft Aug. 29, 2025	3: Gallatin, then Altamont	Daviess Draft, submitted 10-30-2025
Grundy	2025 Approved	None posted	None posted	—
Harrison	2025 draft	Nov. 14, 2025	3: fire station, Bethany	Harrison HMP Draft 11-14-2025 summary below
Linn	2025 draft	None posted	3: 109 N. High Street, Linneus	Linn County meetings post
Livingston	2025 draft	None posted	None posted	—
Mercer	No year given	None posted	None posted	—
Putnam	2025 draft	Nov. 20, 2025	None posted	Putnam Draft HMP 11-20-2025
Sullivan	2025 draft	Nov. 20, 2025 The 2021 plan has its own page	None posted	Sullivan Draft HMP 11-20-2025 2021 Sullivan County HMP

“None posted” means we found no dated post on ghrpc.org when we captured it on September 22, 2026, not that nothing exists.

The 2025 round, in dates

From public meetings to posted drafts

Every date here is from a post on ghrpc.org. Each public meeting also had a Zoom session.

July 7, 2025First Daviess County meeting, 102 N Main Street, Gallatin
July 23, 2025First Harrison County meeting, fire station, 710 S. 12th Street, Bethany
Aug. 12, 2025First Linn County meeting, 109 N. High Street, Linneus
Aug. 29, 2025Daviess County draft posted
Sept. 30, 2025Last Linn County meeting
Oct. 30, 2025Daviess draft posted as “submitted”
Nov. 14, 2025Carroll and Harrison drafts posted
Nov. 20, 2025Putnam and Sullivan drafts posted

One document, with its summary

This is the pattern for every plan on the live site: the document sits on a page that says what it is, before anyone has to open a PDF.

2025 draft Posted Nov. 14, 2025

Harrison HMP Draft 11-14-2025

Posted on ghrpc.org as “Draft: Harrison County hazard mitigation plan”. PDF download.

What it is: The draft of Harrison County’s all-hazards mitigation plan: the countywide plan FEMA requires before the county can receive federal hazard mitigation funds.
Public meetings: GHRPC scheduled three public planning meetings at the fire station, 710 S. 12th Street, Bethany: July 23, August 11 and September 23, 2025, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., each with a Zoom session.
Who to contact: Amanda George, amanda@ghrpc.org, (660) 359-5636 ext. 11

We describe the draft; we don’t summarize its contents, because we haven’t read the PDF. On the live site, staff write a two-line summary of the contents when they upload it.

Open the draft on ghrpc.org

Our proposal

How this page stays true on the live site

Staff keep one record per county: its status, its latest draft and its meetings. The map, the numbers and the table are all drawn from that record, so they can’t disagree. When Amanda exports updated boundaries or layers from ArcGIS Pro, the map redraws from the export, with no embedded map service to load.