Region X
Serving AK, ID, OR, WA
Active Disasters
King County Council Works Howard Hanson Dam Preparedness Issues
On Wednesday, 16 September 2009, Washington State Emergency Management Division (WEMD) leadership joined FEMA Region X Disaster Operations Division Director Lon Biasco and Mitigation Division Director Mark Carey to brief Metropolitan King County Council members on preparations already under way for Howard Hanson Dam downstream communities. Structural issues may limit dam storage ability this flood season. Both state and federal subject matter experts promoted individual preparedness, community outreach efforts and flood insurance policies for homeowners, renters and businesses as primary weapons in advance of potential flooding.
"Feds Feeding Families/Warm Up to Giving" Food Drive
Friday, 28 August 2009 marked FEMA Region X's third month supporting the Federal government's "Warm Up to Giving" food drive, helping to stock empty shelves in local food banks. The August donations brought the total of food and household items to over 600 pounds and averaged six pounds per employee.
Citizen Preparedness is the topic for Regional Advisory Council
August 27 2009 FEMA Region X hosted a Regional Advisory Council Meeting to discuss community and citizen preparedness. Representatives from state, local and tribal agencies met to discuss methods and propose recommendations for increasing citizen disaster preparedness program participation.
NFIP/Endangered Species Act Focus Group
On 23 July 2009 FEMA Region X hosted more than thirty floodplain managers, engineers, environmental officers and emergency managers for a landmark focus group at its Federal Regional Center in Bothell, Washington. Representing city, county, state and tribal entities from up and down the Puget Sound, attendees spent the day forging a comprehensive “safe haven” model floodplain ordinance, which, if adopted, will fully reconcile sound floodplain management practices with the Endangered Species Act.
Feds Feeding Families
Friday, 26 June 2009 marked the first in a series of three deliveries to food banks across the country under the Administration’s "Warm Up to Giving" initiative. FEMA Region X collected 340 lbs of non-perishable foodstuffs and household items for the Western Washington Volunteers of America Snohomish County Food bank Distribution Center. Additional deliveries are scheduled for Friday, 31 July and Friday, 28 August.
Federal and State Communicators Share Lessons Learned
Over 150 government communicators from FEMA headquarters, all ten FEMA regions and almost every state and territory met in Denver 23-24 June 2009 to share best-practices and lessons-learned gleaned during the last decade’s landmark disasters. Administrator Craig Fugate delivered the keynote address, stating his resolve to use the FEMA bully pulpit to promote personal preparedness.
Archives
Floodplain Management Guidebook, 5th Edition
This document is a local administrator's guide to floodplain management and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Click here to access the guidebook.
Evaluating Losses Avoided Through Hazard Mitigation - City of Centralia
Region 10 Federal Agency Media Guide
(What We Do
From its offices in Bothell, FEMA's Region X works in partnership with the emergency management agencies of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. Region X's most common challenges are severe storms and winter storms that can cause flooding, flash-flooding and landslides throughout the region, and earthquakes and tornados.
Constructed on the site of a decommissioned Nike missile site, the Bothell Federal Regional Center (FRC) is one of six similar operations centers built during the late 1960s. Total cost of design, construction, etc. was $1,860,000 (estimated cost of constructing a similar building in 1983 was over $25 million, and the cost today would easily exceed $40 million). The building itself is a subterranean office structure designed to be reasonably survivable in the event of foreseeable natural or man-made disasters.
Who We Are
The Region employs 85 full-time employees, and can draw on a cadre of over 425 Disaster Assistance Employees (DAEs) or "reservists" during a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
Regional organization includes six directorates, or divisions:
Regional Administrator's Office
- Dennis Hunsinger, Acting Regional Administrator
- Sharon Loper, Emergency Analyst
- Mike Howard, External Affairs Director
National Preparedness Division
- National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- National Response Framework (NRF)
- Exercise Planning and Coordination
- Continuity of Operations (COOP)
- State and Tribal Liaison Officers (STLOs)
Mitigation Division
- Flood Plain Management and Insurance Branch
- Hazard Mitigation Assistance Branch
- Risk Analysis Branch
Disaster Operations Division
- Response Operations Branch
- Regional Response Coordination Center (RRCC)
Disaster Assistance Division
- Public Assistance
- Individual Assistance
Administration & Resource Planning Division
- Administrative Services Branch
- Information Technology Branch
- Training, Exercises & Evaluation Branch
Region X Contact Information
State Offices and Agencies of Emergency Management
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