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FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant Program

IMPORTANT NOTICE- If your community applied during the original FY 2024 FMA grant cycle, you must resubmit your application according to the reissued Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) that was issued by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on April 30, 2026. New applications are allowed and welcomed. The application cycle opened on April 30, 2026, with applications due to the TWDB on June 25, 2026, in the FEMA GO System. For this cycle, there is $600 million available nationwide. More information and supporting documentation will be posted shortly on the TWDB FMA webpage. TWDB encourages all communities interested in applying to email TWDB staff. ANNOUNCEMENT- FEMA’s FY 2024 FMA NOFO webinar will be May 28, 2026, 1-2:30 CST. Here is the link to register for the webinar.

Texas Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant Program Dashboard

The Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant program under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), provides federal funding to help states and communities pay for cost-effective ways to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to repetitive-loss and severe repetitive-loss structures that are insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) administers the FMA grant program for the State of Texas on behalf of FEMA.

Goals of the FMA program include reducing or eliminating:

  • repetitive insurance claims under the NFIP, and
  • dependence on taxpayer-funded federal disaster assistance for disaster recovery.

The FMA program is a nationally competitive grant program with an annual application cycle. FEMA will announce the opening of the application cycle with issuance of the "Notice of Funding Opportunity" on grants.gov. Eligible cities, counties, special districts (political subdivisions) will develop an application (referred to as a subapplication) on behalf of citizens (property owners) and submit it to the TWDB through FEMA's FEMA GO grant system. Property owners cannot apply directly to the TWDB or FEMA for an FMA grant. Interested property owners may contact the local floodplain official for their area, or other local officials to find out about their community's interest in applying for an FMA grant.

When developing an FMA grant application, communities will need to obtain their NFIP data to determine the number of NFIP-insured properties, repetitive loss (RL) structures, and severe repetitive loss (SRL) structures. This information is pertinent information needed to develop grant applications. If your community does not have access to this information, please reach out to the TWDB Grant Coordination staff for assistance.

Reissued FY 2024 Texas FMA Subapplication Guidance

While TWDB encourages all applicants to review the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the FMA Grant Program prior to applying, TWDB would like to provide the following guidance documents and resources for Texas subapplicants. This guidance is specific for the updated FY 2024 NOFO.

Federal Funding available for the FY 2024 NOFO: $600 million:

  • Capability and Capacity Building Activities subtotal: $60 million
  • $900,000 per Project Scoping subapplications
  • $100,000 per applicant for flood hazard mitigation planning with maximums of
    • $25,000 for local flood hazard mitigation planning
    • $300,000 for additional Capability and Capacity Building activities
  • Localized Flood Risk Reduction Projects subtotal: $520 million
    • $50,000,000 cap per localized flood risk reduction subapplication
  • Individual Flood Mitigation Projects subtotal: $120 million

Subapplication Submission Guidance by Project Type

Grant Coordination staff are in the process of updating the guidance documents for the updated FY 2024 FMA cycle.

For reference purposes, below are the FY2023 FMA cycle guidance documents.

How to Apply

  1. Who is eligible to receive FMA funding?
  2. What activities are eligible under the FMA Grant Program?
  3. What are the requirements under the FMA Grant Program?
  4. What are the cost shares?
  5. How does the application and selection process work?
  6. How do I get access to FEMA GO?
  7. Where can I get more information?
  8. Is there FEMA direct technical support?

Resources

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Assistance

General Resources

Contracting and Procurement

BCA Resources (Benefit Cost Analysis resources)

FMA Resource Library

This resource library contains documents to assist with subapplication submission, grant implementation, and grant closeout. It is a culmination of FEMA guidance documents, TWDB guidance documents, and examples to better assist Texas communities with the FMA grant process.

FEMA Webinars

FEMA hosts Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) webinars to bring subject matter experts and partners together to provide technical information, best practices, tools, and resources regarding the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, Flood Mitigation Assistance, and Hazard Mitigation Grant Programs (HMGP).

  • Building a Successful Planning Application: This webinar will answer what makes a good planning application and provide guidance as to where information and resources can be found related to planning grants.
  • Building a Successful Flood Risk Reduction Application: This webinar will answer what makes a good flood risk reduction application and use FEMA's example application template to describe the subapplication requirements.
  • Building a Successful Acquisition Application: This webinar will answer what makes a good acquisition application and use FEMA's example application template to describe the subapplication requirements.
  • Environmental Historic Preservation Review 101: This webinar will provide details on how communities should factor in environmental historic preservation, regulations, executive orders, and laws when planning projects
  • FEMA GO Guides - YouTube: This YouTube page is dedicated to assisting applicants and subapplicants with navigating FEMA GO for the FMA or BRIC application cycle.