Plans and Guidance for Emergency Mitigation and Operations
Within the Kenai Peninsula Borough

Kenai Peninsula Borough Emergency Operations Plan 

This plan is designed to provide general information about how the Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB) will conduct and respond during times of disaster.

Hazard Mitigation Plan 2024 Update

This Plan contains information about hazards that affect the entire Borough, as well as how those hazards may be limited to or potentially more extensive in certain communities of the Borough. It describes certain actions or projects that can be undertaken by individuals, community service organizations or local/State government to lessen, or mitigate, the effects of hazard events in the Borough. A table within the plan shows proposed actions or projects that will accomplish this mitigation and protect the Borough population. The major hazards addressed in the Plan are: earthquakes, river and coastal flooding, storm surge, erosion, wildfires, severe weather, volcanic activity resulting in ashfall or tsunamis, avalanches, landslides, tsunamis, and human-caused hazards. The 2024 Plan update began the process of incorporating cities within the Borough into a multi-jurisdictional Plan by including the cities of Seward and Seldovia. The next update cycle, which is required within five years, will incorporate the remaining four cities (Kachemak, Homer, Soldotna, Kenai), as well as any tribal entities that wish to join the Borough’s Plan. Partnering with the Borough in the Plan update and development creates a more efficient process: the cities frequently join with the Borough to fund and undertake mitigation projects that extend beyond city limits, which will be a more seamless process once they are part of the Borough’s Plan. Additionally, the cities will no longer be responsible for creating independent Plans, which helps cities that either inherently have small staff numbers or are struggling to return to pre-Covid staffing levels. The KPB 2024 Hazard Mitigation Plan is part of the State’s multi-jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 2023 Update.

Community Wildfire Protection Plan

A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) helps a community develop, clarify and refine its priorities for protection of life and property and critical infrastructure in the wildland urban interface. The CWPP brings together diverse local interests with a large base of knowledge to discuss their mutual concerns for public safety, community sustainability and natural resources. A CWPP can be used by FireWise program working groups, individual homeowners, fire departments, fire management personnel in natural resource agencies, and others involved in wildfire planning and mitigation efforts. 

Interagency All Lands / All Hands Action Plan 

The interagency “All Lands / All Hands Action Plan” is a wildfire hazard mitigation plan intended to reduce community and individual vulnerability to wildfire hazards before they occur. This plan is a collaboratively developed, interagency multi-year plan designed to augment the implementation of mitigation tasks and project in alignment with the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy. Participating landowners include local, state, federal, private and tribal entities.