On June 1, 2024, FEMA announced the availability of $300 million to help property owners across the nation become more resilient to flooding using funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current funding opportunity was created to reduce the damage-repair cycle of repetitively flooded or substantially damaged properties insured through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) quickly and equitably after a flood disaster event.
Due to the disaster claims from the severe storms and flooding that occurred from June 16 to July 4, 2024, Minnesota qualified for $10 million in Swift Current grant funding.
To be eligible, buildings must:
- Be insured through the NFIP.
- Have a NFIP flood insurance history of claims and be listed a Substantially Damaged, Repetitive Loss (RL), or Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL) property.
Eligible projects
- Property acquisition and structure demolition/relocation
- Structure elevation
- Dry floodproofing of historic residential structures or non-residential structures
- Non-structural retrofitting of existing structures and facilities
- Mitigation reconstruction
- Structural retrofitting of existing structures
- Project Scoping – up to 1 percent of the total maximum set-aside
Application period open
- The application period for Minnesota:
- Opened Aug. 28, 2024.
- Closes on Dec. 13, 2024.
- The funding opportunity is available on Grants.gov.
For more information
- Interested applicants should contact their state or territory Hazard Mitigation Officer. Minnesota applicants can reach out to HazardMitigation@state.mn.us.
- Property owners must work with an eligible local government unit.
- Swift Current overview.
- See FEMA's Swift Current for National Flood Insurance Program Policyholders site.