In 2014, the Earthquake and Hazards program became the Resilience Program to recognize the growing threat from climate impacts and the broader need to incorporate issues of affordable housing, social equity and economic vibrancy in resilience planning.

Our objectives are to:

Develop a regional land use pattern which reduces the risk of natural hazards;

Provide a platform for local governments to come together to jointly plan, share best practices and develop a shared understanding of regional needs to effectively mitigate and manage risk;

Disseminate scientific information about natural hazards in an understandable and usable way that facilitates good policy and planning decisions;

Provide specific tools for local governments to develop and implement hazard mitigation and climate adaptation recovery plans.

We carry out these activities through cross-jurisdictional coordination and collaboration, research, advocacy, education, communication, and technical assistance to local governments.

Over the past 20 years, the program has been a resource for local governments working on Local Hazard Mitigation Plans and General Plan Safety Elements. It is a growing resource for communities working in climate adaptation and resilience initiatives.

To that end, the Resilience Program has historically created and curated best-in-class and first-in-class resources for regional hazards. We created the first earthquake shaking scenario maps for the region and produced the first standard plan set for the retrofit of homes with a crawlspace. Our Hazard Viewer, for example, is a one-of-its-kind interactive map of regional hazards, curated from the most relevant, current maps for the nine-county Bay Area, an easy-to-use-tool for contextualizing local risk at the household-, neighborhood-, jurisdiction- and county-level.

On the following pages, we curate data, policy, planning, funding and implementation tools and resources for Bay Area jurisdictions to build strong resilience initiatives for their communities.