Understanding the Resilience Plan

 Broward County is on the front line of climate change, facing the growing impacts of rising sea levels, more intense rainfall, storm surge, and increasing heat. These challenges put our communities at significant risk for widespread flooding, declining property values, rising insurance costs, and disruptions to business and tourism.​ The Broward County Resilience Plan addresses these issues by providing a clear and actionable roadmap for community investments over the next 50 years.


Community Engagement

An inclusive outreach strategy is being implemented to engage different voices and perspectives as we advance resilience in Broward County. Listening sessions are now being scheduled with community partners and representative stakeholder groups to gain insight on how flooding and heat already impact people, property, and work, and what mitigation strategies are most desired across our communities.​

Resilience in the Making 

Keep current on Plan progress through Resilience in the Making quarterly bulletins. Posted on-line, regular project summaries provide quick update on the technical, the financial and the practical, including modeling efforts, risk assessments, economic evaluations, adaptation strategies, and function of the project platform.  The County's Resilient Environment Department is overseeing this project, but municipal and community input is key to ensure outcomes address local conditions and interests. Residents and businesses are encouraged to get involved. Learn more about climate risk and the project progress by reading further. "Connect" with us to provide input and feedback and to stay up to date. ​​

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Economic Benefits Valuation 

January 2025

This memorandum​ summarizes the benefits of conceptual adaptation suites for the Broward County Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan effort. The economic impacts under each suite were compared to the impacts from the baseline (no action) condition to understand how effective the adaptation suites would be in mitigating the economic losses from flooding.

The future flood projections for the baseline (no action) and the adaptation suites incorporate sea-level rise, in addition to expected rainfall and storm surge. The future sea-level rise conditions evaluated during this study are 2.0 feet assumed to be reached by 2050 and 3.3 feet assumed to be reached by 2070. 

Read the full memorandum here:

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