City of Sequim Jurisdiction-Specific Annex – Clallam County Hazard Mitigation Plan DRAFT – 2019 Plan Update City of Sequim Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Jurisdictional Annex THIS PAGE LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK ii City of Sequim Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Table of Contents 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 1-1 3 1.1 City of Sequim Hazard Mitigation Program ............................................................................... 1-1 4 2 Community Profile ............................................................................................................................... 2-1 5 2.1 Governance ................................................................................................................................ 2-1 6 2.2 Geography and Climate ............................................................................................................. 2-1 7 2.3 Population and Demographics ................................................................................................... 2-1 8 2.4 Economy ..................................................................................................................................... 2-2 9 2.5 Land Use and Ownership ........................................................................................................... 2-2 10 2.6 Transportation and Commuting................................................................................................. 2-3 11 3 Hazard Profiles and Vulnerability Assessments .................................................................................. 3-1 12 3.1 General ....................................................................................................................................... 3-1 13 3.2 Hazard Ranking Methodology .................................................................................................... 3-2 14 3.3 Hazard-Specific Profiles and Risk Assessments .......................................................................... 3-3 15 3.3.1 Earthquake.................................................................................................................... 3-4 16 3.3.2 Active Shooter .............................................................................................................. 3-6 17 3.3.3 Power Outages ............................................................................................................. 3-7 18 3.3.4 Wildfire ......................................................................................................................... 3-8 19 3.3.5 Heat Events and Drought.............................................................................................. 3-9 20 3.3.6 Windstorm .................................................................................................................. 3-11 21 3.3.7 Hazardous Materials Accident .................................................................................... 3-12 22 3.3.8 Winter Storm .............................................................................................................. 3-13 23 3.3.9 Flooding ...................................................................................................................... 3-15 24 3.3.10 Landslide ..................................................................................................................... 3-16 25 3.4 Vulnerability Assessment ......................................................................................................... 3-17 26 3.4.1 Identifying Critical Infrastructure and Asset Inventory .............................................. 3-17 27 3.4.2 Repetitive Loss Properties .......................................................................................... 3-17 28 3.4.3 Exposure Assessment ................................................................................................. 3-18 29 3.5 Land Use and Development Trends ......................................................................................... 3-26 30 4 Capability Assessment ......................................................................................................................... 4-1 31 4.1 Human and Technical Resources ............................................................................................... 4-1 iii City of Sequim Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Table of Contents 1 4.2 Financial Resources .................................................................................................................... 4-1 2 4.3 Legal and Regulatory Resources ................................................................................................ 4-4 3 4.4 Coordination with Community Partners .................................................................................... 4-5 4 4.5 National Flood Insurance Program Participation ....................................................................... 4-6 5 4.6 Integration of Mitigation into Existing Planning Mechanisms ................................................... 4-6 6 4.6.1 Existing Plans ................................................................................................................ 4-7 7 5 Mitigation Strategy .............................................................................................................................. 5-1 8 5.1 Review of 2010 Hazard Mitigation Actions ................................................................................ 5-1 9 5.2 Identification and Analysis of New Mitigation Actions .............................................................. 5-1 10 5.2.1 2019 Mitigation Actions by Hazard .............................................................................. 5-2 11 5.3 2019-2025 Mitigation Implementation Plan ............................................................................. 5-3 12 6 References ........................................................................................................................................... 6-1 13 iv City of Sequim Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan List of Tables and Figures 1 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES 2 Tables 3 Table 2-1 Average Precipitation and Temperature Trends (1980-2016) ..................................... 2-1 4 Table 3-1 Disaster Declarations (2010 to Present) ....................................................................... 3-1 5 Table 3-2 Hazards Addressed in Plan ........................................................................................... 3-1 6 Table 3-3 NFIP Severe Repetitive Loss Properties ...................................................................... 3-17 7 Table 3-4 Sequim Critical Infrastructure .................................................................................... 3-18 8 Table 3-5 Vulnerability Changes Since 2010 .............................................................................. 3-26 9 Table 4-1 Human and Technical Resources Integrated with Hazard Mitigation .......................... 4-1 10 Table 4-2 Accessible Financial Resources ..................................................................................... 4-1 11 Table 4-3 Financial Resources Integrated with Hazard Mitigation .............................................. 4-2 12 Table 4-4 Legal and Regulatory Resources Integrated with Hazard Mitigation ........................... 4-4 13 Table 4-5 Summary of Clallam County Plans ................................................................................ 4-7 14 Table 5-1 Status of 2010 Mitigation Actions ................................................................................ 5-1 15 Table 5-2 2019 Mitigation Actions by Group ............................................................................... 5-2 16 Table 5-3 2019 Mitigation Actions by Hazard .............................................................................. 5-2 17 Table 5-4 2019-2025 Mitigation Implementation Plan ................................................................ 5-3 18 19 Figures 20 Figure 2-1 City of Sequim ............................................................................................................... 2-4 21 Figure 3-1 Sequim-Area Hazard Rankings ..................................................................................... 3-2 22 23 v City of Sequim Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 1. Introduction 1 1 INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 City of Sequim Hazard Mitigation Program 3 Throughout the hazard mitigation planning process, the following representatives from the City of 4 Sequim (referred to herein as ‘City’ or ‘Sequim’) were present at one or more Mitigation Planning Team 5 (MPT) meetings: 6 . Sheri Crain, Chief of Police 7 . David Garlington, Public Works Director 8 . Ann Soule, Resource Manager 9 . Peter Tjemsland, Utilities Manager 10 A public meeting was held in Sequim on July 17, 2019. 11 The City of Sequim participated in the 2010 Clallam County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 12 (HMP). 13 See Appendix E for the completed Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Local Plan Mitigation 14 Review Tool for the City of Sequim. 1-1 City of Sequim Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 2. Community Profile 1 2 COMMUNITY PROFILE 2 2.1 Governance 3 The City of Sequim was incorporated in 1913. In 1995, the city residents voted to adopt the council- 4 manager