(CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released his plan to improve the United States' disaster preparedness on Tuesday, pledging to set up a disaster commission within his first 100 days in office and launch a National Catastrophic Extreme Weather insurance program.

The plan, which relies heavily on Buttigieg's experience as a mayor in South Bend, Indiana, dealing with massive flooding, sets three goals under a hypothetical Buttigieg presidency: improving coordination between communities and the federal government, incentivizing communities to build resilient infrastructure and improving the federal government's immediate response to disaster relief.

"We can't stop all natural disasters from striking, but we can control how we prepare for and recover from them," Buttigieg writes in the plan. "We need to do something different, and we need to do it now, which is why I'm proud to be the first 2020 presidential candidate to propose a new approach to disaster preparedness."

Buttigieg will unveil his plan during an event in Conway, South Carolina, a town that was ravaged by Hurricane Florence in 2018, a weather event that has been billed as a "1,000-year flood event."

Buttigieg often talks about catastrophic weather events like this during his stump speech, referencing when, as mayor, his community in South Bend experienced a 500-year floor and 1,000-year flood within a few years.

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