PORT ANGELES — The Emergency Management Division of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office is asking residents to complete a survey to assist in updating the county’s 2019 hazard mitigation plan.

It will be available until May 10 at www.clallamcountywa.gov/hazardsurvey2024.

The plan, which is updated every five years, identifies hazards in the region and identifies possible projects to prepare and mitigate the danger to the community and reduce damage to infrastructure.

Having a federally approved hazard mitigation plan allows the county to receive funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the event of a disaster as well as enhance the county’s ability to qualify for grants to help mitigate identified hazards.

The current plan discusses such hazards as earthquakes, disease, utility failures, wildfires, windstorms, active threats, hazardous material incidents, landslides, flooding, tsunamis and droughts.

The multi-jurisdictional plan is developed in coordination with other municipalities, tribal authorities and other stakeholders such as the cities of Forks, Port Angeles and Sequim; the Lower Elwha Klallam, Hoh, Jamestown S’Klallam, Makah and Quileute tribes; Clallam Public Utility District; Peninsula College; the Port of Port Angeles; and fire districts, emergency management planners, hospitals, businesses and stakeholders from Jefferson County.