Santa Cruz County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Update 2025
Santa Cruz County has completed drafting its 2025 Update Hazard Mitigation Plan to reduce losses resulting from natural disasters and wants your input. This plan strives to identify and reduce vulnerability of the County’s residents, visitors, and infrastructure to future hazard events.
The public review period was open from September 29, 2025 to October 20, 2025 – we thank you and appreciate your feedback. The draft documents circulated for public review are linked below – this platform provides the opportunity to collaboratively comment on the HMP! Please see below to view the draft documents.
The plan is organized into an executive summary, and two volumes; volume 1 contains the base county plan while volume 2 contains the jurisdictional annexes, each is accessible through the links below.
Thank you for helping us make Santa Cruz County more resilient!
October 2025 MJHMP CAL OES Submission Draft
Updated 10/31/2025
Click the button below to view the Santa Cruz County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan:
September 2025 MJHMP Public Draft (Succeeded)
Updated 10/21/2025
Click the button below to view the Santa Cruz County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan executive summary:
Volume 1 – Santa Cruz County Base Hazard Mitigation Plan
Updated 10/21/2025
Click the button below to view Volume 1 of the Santa Cruz County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan:
Appendix B – Planning Process Documentation – VIEW HERE
Volume 2 – Jurisdictional Annexes to the Hazard Mitigation Plan
Updated 10/21/2025
Click each button below to view Volume 2 annexes to the Santa Cruz County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan for the Cities of Capitola, Scotts Valley, and Watsonville and the Special Districts Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (PVWMA), Resource Conservation District Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz Port District, Scotts Valley Water District, Soquel Creek Water District, Cabrillo College.
