Flood Mitigation Assistance
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) provides funds that measures can be taken to reduce or eliminate risk of flood damage to buildings insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Funding is available on an annual basis (as appropriated).
In 2013, the FMA program was reorganized. This process consolidated multiple flood mitgiation programs into a single FMA program which seeks to reduce or eliminate claims under the National Flood Insurance Program. Below are the previously independent programs that have been absorbed into the FMA program:
- Repetitive Flood Claims: Program aimed to reduce flood damages to properties for which one or more flood insurance claim payments had been made.
- Severe Repetitive Loss: Program was designed to reduce flood damages to residential properties that had experienced severe repetitive losses under flood insurance coverage.
Cost Share
- 75% (Federal) / 25% (Non-Federal) – insured properties and planning grants
- 90% (Federal) / 10% (Non-Federal) – repetitive loss (RL)* property
- 100% (Federal) – severe repetitive loss (SRL)* property
*Repetitive Loss: A structure that has incurred flood-related damage on two (2) occasions, in which the cost of the repair, on the average, equaled or exceeded 25 percent of the market value of the structure at the time of each such flood event.
*Severe Repetitive Loss: A structure has at least four (4) flood related damages claims payments (including building and contents) over $5,000 each, and the cumulative amount of such claims payments exceeds $20,000.
Eligible Sub-Applicants
- State Agencies
- Local Governments
- Tribal Governments
Successful Rhode Island Sub-Applicants
Award Year: |
Number of Sub-Grantees: |
Activity Type(s): |
Total Federal Share: |
2013 |
1 |
Residential Elevation |
$190,251.00 |
For additional program specific information, please visit FEMA's FMA website.